11-letter words containing m, u, s, c
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- inclusivism — The practice of incorporating disparate or unreconciled elements in a single, inclusive system or theory.
- incommodius — Misspelling of incommodious.
- inducements — Plural form of inducement.
- inductivism — The use of or preference for inductive methods of reasoning, especially in science.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intumescent — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- logical sum — union (def 10a).
- loose scrum — a play in which a bunch of players gather around an opponent's dropped ball and then attempt to gain possession of the ball.
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- maliciously — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- marcellus i — Saint, died a.d. 309, pope 308–309.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinism — An ideology of masculinity; especially, an ideology opposed to, or opposed by, feminism.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).