9-letter words containing m, o, u, s
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- novodamus — a clause in a charter whereby a grant (particularly of property) is renewed by a (feudal) superior, esp for the purpose of making a minor alteration to the former grant; the charter itself
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- occultism — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
- off stump — the outside stump opposite the one at which the batsman stands.
- ombudsman — a government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.
- ombudsmen — Plural form of ombudsman.
- ominously — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- omnibuses — Plural form of omnibus.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- oncomouse — a mouse bred for cancer treatment research
- opusculum — opuscule.
- osmoticum — (biology) Any substance that acts to supplement osmotic pressure in a plant or a culture of plant cells.
- osmundine — compost made from dried fern roots
- ossiculum — (anatomy) An ossicle.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- outermost — farthest out; remotest from the interior or center: the outermost limits.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outmuscle — to get the better of or dominate by virtue of superior strength or force.
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsmarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsmart.
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- pompously — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- pop music — popular music
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- puss moth — a large pale prominent moth, Cerura vinula, whose larvae feed on willow and poplar, and are bright green with a masklike red head and claspers modified as "tails" that are protruded and raised in a state of alarm: family Notodontidae
- quasimodo — Salvatore [sahl-vah-taw-re] /ˌsɑl vɑˈtɔ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–68, Italian poet: Nobel prize 1959.
- quietsome — still, calm, quiet
- quilombos — Plural form of quilombo.
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- reremouse — a bat.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rostellum — Biology. any small, beaklike process.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- routinism — adherence to routine.