10-letter words containing m, e, r, u
- monocerous — having one horn on the head
- monomerous — consisting of one part.
- monsterous — Misspelling of monstrous.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morigerous — acquiescent, obedient, servile
- mortuaries — Plural form of mortuary.
- mossbunker — the menhaden.
- motoneuron — motor neuron.
- motorbuses — Plural form of motorbus.
- moudiewart — a mole
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mouse deer — chevrotain
- mouseovers — Plural form of mouseover.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- muciferous — secreting or containing mucus.
- muckrakers — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mud dauber — any of several wasps of the family Sphecidae that build a nest of mud cells and provision it with spiders or insects.
- mud stream — mudflow.
- mud turtle — any of several small, freshwater turtles of the family Kinosternidae, of North and South America, as the dark-brown Kinosternon subrubrum, of the U.S.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- mug punter — a customer or client who is gullible and easily swindled
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- mule track — a track used by mules
- mule train — a line of pack mules or a line of wagons drawn by mules.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- multi-role — a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- multi-user — (operating system) A term describing an operating system or application program that can be used by several people concurrently; opposite of single-user. Unix is an example of a multi-user operating system, whereas most (but not all) versions of Microsoft Windows are intended to support only one user at a time. A multi-user system, by definition, supports concurrent processing of multiple tasks (once known as "time-sharing") or true parallel processing if it has multiple CPUs. While batch processing systems often ran jobs for serveral users concurrently, the term "multi-user" typically implies interactive access. Before Ethernet networks were commonplace, multi-user systems were accessed from a terminal (e.g. a vt100) connected via a serial line (typically RS-232). This arrangement was eventually superseded by networked personal computers, perhaps sharing files on a file server. With the wide-spread availability of Internet connections, the idea of sharing centralised resources is becoming trendy again with cloud computing and managed applications, though this time it is the overhead of administering the system that is being shared rather than the cost of the hardware. In gaming, both on PCs and games consoles, the equivalent term is multi-player, though the first multi-player games (e.g. ADVENT) were on multi-user computers.
- multi-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- multiarmed — having multiple arms
- multicurie — having a radioactivity of more than one curie
- multigrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- multilayer — multilayered.
- multimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein that has multiple polypeptide chains.
- multimeter — a device consisting of one or more meters, as an ammeter and voltmeter, used to measure two or more electrical quantities in an electric circuit, as voltage, resistance, and current.
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiplier — a person or thing that multiplies.
- multipower — Of or pertaining to more than one power (in various senses).
- multirange — having several ranges
- multiverse — (in physics and cosmology) a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own.
- mumpreneur — (informal) A mother who works as a business entrepreneur in addition to her family commitments.
- murder one — first-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- murder two — second-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- murderball — A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated (\"murdered\") by being struck with the ball.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.