9-letter words containing m, c, n, u
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- multisync — (hardware) An NEC trademark term for multiscan. As NEC was the first to manufacture multiscan monitors the term is often used interchangeably with multiscan.
- mumchance — Mute, or not speaking; silent.
- munch out — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musclemen — Plural form of muscleman.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- myoclonus — an abrupt spasm or twitch of a muscle or group of muscles, occurring in some neurological diseases.
- namaycush — a lake trout.
- naumachia — a mock sea fight, given as a spectacle among the ancient Romans.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- nicodemus — a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin who became a secret follower of Jesus. John 3:1–21; 7:50–52; 19:39.
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- oncomouse — a mouse bred for cancer treatment research
- otoconium — (anatomy) An otolith or statolith.
- outcoming — That comes out.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- pneumonic — of, relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- punctatim — point for point.
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- pycnidium — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- temulence — drunkenness
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- tumescent — swelling; slightly tumid.
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- uncharmed — marked by good fortune or privilege: a charmed life.
- unclaimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.