10-letter words containing e, u, o, n
- melon-bulb — a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
- membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- 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.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- menstruous — pertaining to menstruation.
- metapontum — an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.
- 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.
- minicourse — a short, intensive course of study, usually a few weeks long.
- miscounsel — to advise wrongly.
- miscounted — Simple past tense and past participle of miscount.
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- 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.
- mompreneur — Alternative form of mumpreneur.
- monegasque — a native or inhabitant of Monaco
- monestrous — of or relating to a mammal that has one estrus period per breeding season, as the dog.
- money fund — a money-market fund.
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- monocerous — having one horn on the head
- monocoques — Plural form of monocoque.
- monoecious — Biology. having both male and female organs in the same individual; hermaphroditic.
- monogenous — monogenetic.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- monologues — Plural form of monologue.
- monomerous — consisting of one part.
- monosemous — Having only one meaning or interpretation.
- monsterous — Misspelling of monstrous.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- monumental — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
- monumented — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motoneuron — motor neuron.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mount etna — an active volcano in E Sicily: the highest volcano in Europe and the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps. Height: 3323 m (10 902 ft)
- mount nebo — a mountain in Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: the highest point of a ridge known as Pisgah, from which Moses viewed the Promised Land just before his death (Deuteronomy 34:1). Height: 802 m (2631 ft)
- mountained — having mountains
- mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
- mousseline — muslin.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- mouthiness — The property of being mouthy.
- mouvementé — hectic; animated
- mucedinous — of or resembling mold or mildew.
- mugho pine — a prostrate, shrubby pine, Pinus mugo mugo, native to Europe, cultivated as an ornamental.
- murder one — first-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- mush-melon — muskmelon.
- muskmelons — Plural form of muskmelon.
- muttonhead — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.