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11-letter words containing m, u, r

  • armed guard — a guard who is carrying a gun
  • armour-clad — wearing armour
  • arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
  • arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
  • aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
  • aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
  • athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
  • atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
  • audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
  • audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
  • auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
  • austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
  • auto-prompt — (language)   A numerical control language from IBM for 3D milling.
  • autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
  • azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
  • back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
  • bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
  • barbiturism — chronic poisoning caused by the excessive use of phenobarbital, secobarbital, or other derivative of barbituric acid.
  • barium meal — a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, swallowed by a patient before X-ray examination of the upper part of the alimentary canal
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
  • beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
  • bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
  • bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
  • blue myrtle — blueblossom.
  • body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
  • bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
  • boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
  • borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1.   (web)   Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2.   (programming)   Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • british gum — dextrin.
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
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