12-letter words containing m, a, n, u
- antileukemic — acting against leukemia
- antimosquito — acting against mosquitoes
- antirrhinums — Plural form of antirrhinum.
- antitumoural — acting against or upon tumours
- aqua ammonia — a water solution of ammonia; ammonia water; ammonium hydroxide
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- assumed bond — a bond issued by one corporation and assumed as an obligation by another.
- assumed name — If you do something under an assumed name, you do it using a name that is not your real name.
- athos, mount — autonomous monastic district occupying the tip of the easternmost prong of the Chalcidice peninsula, NE Greece: 130 sq mi (337 sq km); pop. 1,500
- auction room — a room in a building where auctions take place
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- autoimmunity — (pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
- automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard
- banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
- barium enema — an injection into the rectum of a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, before X-raying the lower alimentary canal
- base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
- beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
- bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- beurre manie — butterpaste.
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- chance music — aleatory music.
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema