9-letter words containing m, a, u, s, o
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- mass noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- mausoleal — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausoleum — a stately and magnificent tomb.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- mesopause — the boundary or transition zone between the mesosphere and the ionosphere. Compare mesosphere (def 1).
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- modulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- molluskan — (rare) alternative spelling of molluscan.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- mosasaurs — Plural form of mosasaur.
- mossbauer — Rudolf L [roo-dawlf] /ˈru dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1929–2011, German physicist: Nobel prize 1961.
- moundsman — pitcher2 (def 2).
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mouse mat — (hardware) (U.S.: "mouse pad") A small sheet with a special surface for a rolling ball mouse to move on. Most mouse mats are sheets of rubber or foam about 20cm by 25cm and about 5mm thick with one side covered with cloth or sometimes hard plastic. Deluxe versions come combined with a wrist rest. It is rare to find a mouse mat which does not carry some form of advertisement for some company or other. They are such a common free gift that few people actually have to buy one. Mats are supposed to provide better traction and a clean, lint-free surface over which to move but it debatable whether they are useful at all, or whether any appropriate surface (preferably hard, even, flat, and clean) is as good. Howevever, some mice which use optical (e.g. Sun) or radio-frequency sensors (e.g. ?) to detect motion (instead of using a rolling ball) will only work on specially designed mouse mats. Critics may consider this to be part of the connector conspiracy, though the designers would claim greater reliability due to the absence of moving parts.
- mouse pad — mouse mat
- mouse-ear — short for mouse-ear chickweed