11-letter words containing g, u, a
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
- manna sugar — mannitol.
- manoeuvring — A manoeuvre.
- manumitting — Present participle of manumit.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- marine glue — a tarlike composition for coating the seams of a planked deck after caulking.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- massasaugas — Plural form of massasauga.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- 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.
- megatsunami — (informal, often used by journalists) A very large tsunami.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- meme plague — (philosophy) The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- micturating — Present participle of micturate.
- minangkabau — a member of an Indonesian people native to west-central Sumatra.
- miniaturing — Present participle of miniature.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- mississauga — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the SW shore of Lake Ontario: suburb of Toronto.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- monolingual — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- muck-raking — If you accuse someone of muck-raking, you are criticizing them for finding and spreading unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone, especially a public figure.
- multangular — having many angles; polyangular.
- multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- multiagency — involving multiple agencies
- multijugate — (of a leaf) having several pairs of leaflets
- 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.
- musette bag — Also called musette bag. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
- muskallonge — muskellunge.
- mustard gas — an oily liquid, C 4 H 8 Cl 2 S, used as a chemical-warfare gas, blistering the skin and damaging the lungs, often causing blindness and death: introduced by the Germans in World War I.
- mutagenesis — the origin and development of a mutation.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- mystagogues — Plural form of mystagogue.
- natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
- naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?