11-letter words containing m, a, n, u
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- succedaneum — a substitute.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- suppedaneum — a shelf affixed to a cross for supporting the feet of the crucified.
- sustainment — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- tegumentary — a covering or vestment; integument.
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- traducement — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
- transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tumefacient — tumefying; causing to swell.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- tutankhamen — 14th century b.c, a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty.
- ultramarine — of the color ultramarine.
- ultramodern — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
- un-american — not American; not characteristic of or proper to the U.S.; foreign or opposed to the characters, values, standards, goals, etc., of the U.S.
- un-charming — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- un-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- unacclaimed — to welcome or salute with shouts or sounds of joy and approval; applaud: to acclaim the conquering heroes.
- unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
- unambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- unamendable — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- unamortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
- unamusingly — in an unamusing or unentertaining manner
- unanimously — of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
- unashamedly — not ashamed; not restrained by embarrassment or consciousness of moral guilt: a liar unashamed even after public disgrace.
- unassembled — noting an artificial gem formed of two or more parts, as a doublet or triplet, at least one of which is a true gemstone.
- unassumable — capable of being assumed, as an office or an obligation: Assumable mortgages are hard to find these days.
- unattempted — not tried or undertaken
- unaugmented — not increased or enlarged
- unautomated — to apply the principles of automation to (a mechanical process, industry, office, etc.).
- unblameable — not able to be blamed; immune to blame; blameless
- unblameably — in an unblameable fashion; blamelessly
- uncinematic — not characteristic of or of the nature of the cinema; not dramatic; unsuitable for making into a film
- unclimbable — impossible to climb
- uncombative — not combative or confrontational
- uncommanded — to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: The captain commanded his men to attack.
- uncompacted — not compacted
- uncompanied — unaccompanied