11-letter words containing m, o, u, n
- miss out on — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- 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.
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- 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
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monoclinous — (of a plant, species, etc.) having both the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monoestrous — monestrous.
- monolingual — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
- monologuing — Present participle of monologue.
- monologuist — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monostylous — having only one style.
- monseigneur — a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- morning gun — a gun fired at the first note of reveille.
- mosquitoing — Present participle of mosquito.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
- mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
- mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
- mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)