11-letter words containing m, a, u, s, o
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- magnanimous — generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies.
- magnum opus — a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make use of — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- manumission — the act of manumitting.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masturbator — to engage in masturbation.
- mavourneens — Plural form of mavourneen.
- measure off — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- mimosaceous — belonging to the Mimosaceae, now regarded as a subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the legume family.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
- 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)
- mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
- mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- 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
- multanimous — having many sides
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multisonant — having many sounds
- muscatorium — a flabellum or fan, esp the ceremonial fan carried before the pope