10-letter words containing d, e, n, u, m
- mansuetude — mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
- manumitted — Simple past tense and past participle of manumit.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- medrinaque — A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
- memorandum — a short note designating something to be remembered, especially something to be done or acted upon in the future; reminder.
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation
- minaudiere — a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
- mind mouse — (hardware) A pointing device (unlike a mouse in design, but serving the same purpose) which works via sensors in contact with the user's skin. The sensors are built into a plastic base which fits on one finger and which is similar in shape to a finger cast. The principle of operation is presumably myoelectric, not psionic, contrary to what the name implies. As of the time of writing (1996), mind mice are not accurate enough to be anything but novelties.
- minibudget — a group of economic measures proposed between full annual budgets
- miscounted — Simple past tense and past participle of miscount.
- modern cut — any of several modifications or combinations of the brilliant cut, step cut, or table cut, having the girdle outline often in some novel form.
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- money fund — a money-market fund.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- monumented — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mountained — having mountains
- mucedinous — of or resembling mold or mildew.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- mujahadeen — Alternative spelling of mujahideen.
- mujahedeen — Alternative spelling of mujahideen.
- mujahideen — Guerrilla fighters in Islamic countries, especially those who are fighting against non-Muslim forces.
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- murder one — first-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- muscadines — Plural form of muscadine.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- muttonhead — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neverendum — A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.
- nidamentum — an egg capsule, the material used to construct an egg receptacle or nest
- nude mouse — a virtually hairless mutant laboratory-bred mouse having a major immune system deficiency caused by a lack of T cells, and able to accept grafts of foreign tissue.
- null modem — (communications, hardware) A cable, especially an EIA-232 cable, for connecting serial ports on two computers directly, rather than via modems. Since, according to the specification, both computers should transmit on pin three of their EIA-232 connectors and receive on pin two, a null modem cable needs to connect one computer's pin two to the other's pin three and vice versa. It also needs to have male connectors at both ends (again, according to the specification).
- nummulated — relating to an expectorated combination of saliva and mucus in a circular, shallow form
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- peenemunde — a village in NE Germany: German center for missile and rocket research and manufacture in World War II.
- perdu-mont — Mont [mawn] /mɔ̃/ (Show IPA). French name of Monte Perdido.
- peridinium — a member of the Peridinium genus of marine- or freshwater-dwelling dinoflagellate organisms characterized by armoured plates
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- redocument — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- referendum — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- refundment — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- seducement — an act of seducing
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude