9-letter words containing m, e, g, a, u
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megajoule — a unit of work or energy, equal to one million joules.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaquake — an earthquake of exceptional destructive power, esp one with a magnitude of 8 or greater, which may generate a tsunami
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- messuages — Plural form of messuage.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- mugearite — an igneous rock containing oligoclase, olivine, orthoclase, and apatite
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- mung bean — small green legume
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outmanage — (transitive) To surpass in management; to manage better than.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- undamaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- ungermane — not appropriate to the topic being considered
- unmanaged — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- unmeaning — not meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.