7-letter words containing m, o, u, s
- mosques — Plural form of mosque.
- moujiks — Plural form of moujik.
- moulins — a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- mousaka — Alternative spelling of moussaka.
- mousers — Plural form of mouser.
- mousery — a place infested with mice
- mousily — In a mousy manner.
- mousing — a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
- moussed — Simple past tense and past participle of mousse.
- mouthes — (archaic, dialectal) Plural form of mouth.
- mucosae — mucous membrane.
- mucosal — mucous membrane.
- mudscow — a boat or barge for travelling over mudflats
- mugshot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- muscoid — a moss-like plant
- muscone — an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 1 6 H 3 0 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- muscose — resembling moss
- muscovy — Also called Grand Duchy of Muscovy. a principality founded c1271 and centered on the ancient city of Moscow. Its rulers gradually gained control over the neighboring Great Russian principalities and established the Russian Empire under the czars.
- musimon — Alternative form of mouflon.
- musk ox — a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, of arctic regions of North America and Greenland, that is between an ox and a sheep in size and anatomy.
- muskego — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- muskone — an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 1 6 H 3 0 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- nimious — great, extravagant, considerable
- noseeum — (colloquial) a biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people out of doors, particularly in warm weather after sunset.
- nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- oestrum — Alternative spelling of estrum.
- offscum — refuse or waste which is removed by skimming off
- olympus — Mount, a mountain in NE Greece, on the boundary between Thessaly and Macedonia: mythical abode of the greater Grecian gods. 9730 feet (2966 meters).
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
- onymous — Having a name.
- opossum — a prehensile-tailed marsupial, Didelphis virginiana, of the eastern U.S., the female having an abdominal pouch in which its young are carried: noted for the habit of feigning death when in danger.
- opposum — Misspelling of opossum.
- orgasum — Misspelling of orgasm.
- osculum — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
- osmious — of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
- osmunda — any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.
- outmost — farthest out; outermost.
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- plumose — having feathers or plumes; feathered.
- plumous — having plumes or feathers
- pompous — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- quorums — Plural form of quorum.
- rhombus — an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram; any equilateral parallelogram except a square.
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- romulus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rostrum — any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- seymour — Jane, c1510–37, third wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Edward VI.
- sfumato — the subtle and minute gradation of tone and color used to blur or veil the contours of a form in painting.