11-letter words containing m, o, u, r, n
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- micronuclei — Plural form of micronucleus.
- micturition — the act of passing urine; urination.
- mill around — walk about
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monoestrous — monestrous.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monseigneur — a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- 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.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- move around — be mobile, active
- mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- munitioneer — a munitions-factory worker
- munoz marin — Luis [lwees] /lwis/ (Show IPA), 1898–1980, Puerto Rican political leader: governor 1948–64.
- mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
- murmuration — an act or instance of murmuring.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- mutteration — the act of muttering
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- mutton corn — sweet corn, especially when ripe and ready for eating on the cob.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- neurohumour — a chemical substance secreted by nerve endings; a neurohormone, particularly a neurotransmitter