11-letter words containing e, u, h, m
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
- meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metalithium — A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- mouth ulcer — oral sore
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- movie house — a motion-picture theater.
- mule-headed — stubborn; intractable.
- multichoice — Multiple-choice.
- multichrome — chromium.
- multiethnic — involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.
- multiheaded — having more than one head
- multihulled — (nautical) Having more than one hull.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- multitheism — The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
- multitheist — Of or pertaining to multitheism.
- mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- murder hunt — a search for a murderer
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- nemathecium — a wartlike protuberance on the thallus of certain red algae, containing tetraspores, antheridia, or cystocarps.
- neurohumour — a chemical substance secreted by nerve endings; a neurohormone, particularly a neurotransmitter
- nototherium — an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
- on the jump — in a hurry
- orthohelium — (physics) Form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons are parallel.
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns