11-letter words containing g, u, m, e
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jus gentium — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- khmer rouge — a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvring — A manoeuvre.
- 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.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- 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.
- meningismus — Meningism without the presence of infection or inflammation.
- meshuggeneh — an insane or stupid person
- meshuggener — Crazy, insane.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- misery guts — if you describe someone as a misery guts, you mean they are miserable when they could or should be happy
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- misguidedly — misled; mistaken: Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help the poor.
- misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- mistinguett — original name Jeanne-Marie Bourgeois. 1875–1956, French dancer, chanteuse, and entertainer
- monseigneur — a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
- mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
- mr nice guy — a typically pleasant, likable person who avoids causing trouble or dissension (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- multiagency — involving multiple agencies
- multiengine — Having more than one engine.
- multijugate — (of a leaf) having several pairs of leaflets
- mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.