12-letter words containing m, o, n, a
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mount shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
- mount sorata — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real, with two peaks, Ancohuma, 6550 m (21 490 ft), and Illampu, 6485 m (21 276 ft)
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- mountain cat — any of various wild feline mammals, such as the bobcat, lynx, or puma
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountain top — the top of a natural upward projection of the earth's surface, higher and steeper than a hill and often having a rocky summit
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- moveableness — The quality of being moveable.
- movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multimegaton — (of a nuclear weapon) having several megatons of explosive power
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multinomials — Plural form of multinomial.
- multinominal — having several or many names.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.
- murmurations — Plural form of murmuration.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- mutarotation — a gradual change in the optical rotation of freshly prepared solutions of reducing sugars.
- mutationally — In a mutational manner.
- muttonheaded — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- name-dropper — a person who indulges in name-dropping.
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- nanomaterial — A material having particles or constituents of nanoscale dimensions, or one that is produced by nanotechnology.
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- nasal demons — Recognised shorthand on the Usenet group comp.std.c for any unexpected behaviour of a C compiler on encountering an undefined construct. During a discussion on that group in early 1992, a regular remarked "When the compiler encounters [a given undefined construct] it is legal for it to make demons fly out of your nose" (the implication is that the compiler may choose any arbitrarily bizarre way to interpret the code without violating the ANSI C standard). Someone else followed up with a reference to "nasal demons", which quickly became established.
- nasolacrimal — of or relating to the lacrimal structures and the nose.
- nasolacrymal — relating to the tear duct
- nationalisms — Plural form of nationalism.
- necromancers — Plural form of necromancer.
- nematologist — One who studies nematology.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
- neonomianism — the doctrine in Christian theology that the Gospel of Christ is a new Law, completely supplanting the Mosaic Law
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.