12-letter words containing m, o, r, a, t, u
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metacomputer — an interconnected and balanced set of computers that operate as a single unit
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- 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)
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- mouse trails — (operating system) A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mousquetaire — musketeer.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multilocular — having or consisting of many cells or vesicles.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- 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.
- 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.
- neuroanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- non-ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- not-a-number — (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.