9-letter words containing m, u, g, a
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- maxim gun — an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megajoule — a unit of work or energy, equal to one million joules.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaquake — an earthquake of exceptional destructive power, esp one with a magnitude of 8 or greater, which may generate a tsunami
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- messuages — Plural form of messuage.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mugearite — an igneous rock containing oligoclase, olivine, orthoclase, and apatite
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- mullingar — a town in N central Republic of Ireland, the county town of Co Westmeath; site of cathedral; cattle raised. Pop: 15 621 (2002)
- multigram — Of more than one gram.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- mummachog — Alternative form of mummichog.
- mummy bag — a snug-fitting sleeping bag tapered from the shoulders to the feet, enclosing both the body and head except for a small opening for the face.
- mung bean — small green legume
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- muztagata — a mountain in W China, in the Kunlun Range. 24,757 feet (7546 meters).
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling