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11-letter words containing m, o, e, n

  • mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
  • misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
  • miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
  • misconceive — Fail to understand correctly.
  • misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
  • miscreation — miscreated.
  • misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • misdevotion — mistaken devotion
  • misdiagnose — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
  • misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
  • misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
  • misgoverned — Simple past tense and past participle of misgovern.
  • misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
  • misoneistic — hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.
  • misordering — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • misorganize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
  • missionizer — a missionary
  • miter joint — a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.
  • mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
  • mnemotechny — The study and practice of improving one\u2019s memory.
  • mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
  • mock orange — Also called syringa. any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Philadelphus, of the saxifrage family, especially P. coronarius, a widely cultivated species having fragrant white flowers.
  • model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
  • moderations — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
  • modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
  • modernising — Present participle of modernise.
  • modernistic — modern.
  • modernities — Plural form of modernity.
  • modernizing — Present participle of modernize.
  • mogen david — Star of David.
  • mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
  • molendinary — a mill
  • molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
  • molybdenite — a soft, graphitelike mineral, molybdenum sulfide, MoS 2 , occurring in foliated masses or scales: the principal ore of molybdenum.
  • molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
  • momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
  • momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
  • monasteries — Plural form of monastery.
  • monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
  • monel metal — any of various silvery corrosion-resistant alloys containing copper (28 per cent), nickel (67 per cent), and smaller quantities of such metals as iron, manganese, and aluminium
  • monergistic — the doctrine that the Holy Ghost acts independently of the human will in the work of regeneration. Compare synergism (def 3).
  • monetizable — Able to be converted into cash with relative ease.
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • money order — an order for the payment of money, as one issued by one bank or post office and payable at another.
  • money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
  • money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
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