11-letter words containing m, i, s, o
- music stool — a stool you sit on when playing a musical instrument
- music video — a commercial video featuring a performance of a popular song, often through a stylized dramatization by the performers with lip-syncing and special effects.
- musical box — music box.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mussitation — silent movement of the lips in simulation of the movements made in audible speech.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- mutationist — a supporter of mutation theory as a means of explaining evolution
- mutilations — Plural form of mutilation.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- mycologists — Plural form of mycologist.
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- myocarditis — inflammation of the myocardium.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- myoinositol — an isomer of inositol found in muscle
- myonecrosis — Necrosis of muscle tissue.
- mythologies — Plural form of mythology.
- mythologise — to classify, explain, or write about myths.
- mythologist — an expert in mythology.
- mythopoesis — Creation of myth.
- myxomatosis — Pathology. a condition characterized by the presence of many myxomas. myxomatous degeneration.
- myxoviruses — Plural form of myxovirus.
- nationalism — spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
- nematocides — Plural form of nematocide.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
- neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- neopopulism — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neostigmine — a synthetic anticholinesterase, C 1 2 H 1 9 N 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, glaucoma, and postoperative urinary bladder distention.
- neovitalism — a new or revived form of the belief that life is a vital principle (vitalism)
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotomies — Plural form of neurotomy.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- nishinomiya — a city on S Honshu, in S Japan.
- nitromersol — a brownish-yellow or yellow, granular, water-insoluble powder, C 7 H 5 HgNO 3 : used in alkaline solution chiefly as an antiseptic.
- nitrosamine — any of a series of compounds with the type formula R 2 NNO, some of which are carcinogenic, formed in cured meats by the conversion of nitrite.
- noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
- noisemaking — The production of noise.
- noisomeness — The state or quality of being noisome.
- noisy miner — a honey-eater, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia, having a grey-white plumage and brown wings and noted for its raucous cries
- nominalised — Simple past tense and past participle of nominalise.
- nominations — Plural form of nomination.
- nominatives — Plural form of nominative.
- non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
- non-marxist — an adherent of Karl Marx or his theories.