11-letter words containing h, u, m
- 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.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- minus sight — a foresight used in leveling.
- 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
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motor-mouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
- motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- 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.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- mouth ulcer — oral sore
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- movie house — a motion-picture theater.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
- mule-headed — stubborn; intractable.
- multiauthor — having numerous or many authors
- 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.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiphoton — involving several photons
- 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.
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.