12-letter words containing m, o, u, r, n
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- in our midst — among us
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- intercommune — to commune or converse together
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
- macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malnutrition — lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced nutrition.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- maturational — the act or process of maturating.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- microinsurer — (insurance) An insurer providing microinsurance, small low-cost policies aimed at underserved groups.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.