11-letter words containing m, o, n, t, u, s
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- numerations — Plural form of numeration.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- opportunism — the policy or practice, as in politics, business, or one's personal affairs, of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to expediency or effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles.
- organistrum — a stringed instrument played by two people
- ostensorium — ostensory.
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outdoorsmen — Plural form of outdoorsman.
- outsmarting — Present participle of outsmart.
- outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
- pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
- piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
- pneumostome — a breathing hole in the mantle of a gastropod.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- unambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- uncustomary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- unmoistened — not having been moistened
- untimeously — untimely
- untremulous — not tremulous or timorous; not characterized by trembling
- venturesome — having or showing a disposition to undertake risky or dangerous activities; daring: a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer.
- voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.