11-letter words containing m, e, r, u, t
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- importunate — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- in aeternum — forever.
- injury time — sport: stoppage time, extension of play by time spent treating injured players
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- instruments — Plural form of instrument.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intermedium — (in tetrapods) a carpal in the center of the wrist joint, or a tarsal in the center of the ankle joint.
- intermutual — (obsolete) mutual.
- intermutule — a space between two mutules.
- interregnum — an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor.
- intervallum — an interval of time
- itinerarium — a prayer in the breviary, used by a priest about to begin a journey.
- jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
- jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marquessate — The territory of a marquess, margrave or person of comparable rank.
- marquisates — Plural form of marquisate.
- marquisette — a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- masturbates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of masturbate.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- mauretanian — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measurement — the act of measuring.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- medium-term — The medium-term is the period of time which lasts a few months or years beyond the present time, in contrast with the short term or the long term.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.