11-letter words containing m, u, s, c
- massachuset — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- micrococcus — any spherical bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in irregular masses, many species of which are pigmented and are saprophytic or parasitic.
- microcuries — Plural form of microcurie.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- microporous — composed of or having extremely small pores.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- microvillus — any of the small, fingerlike projections of the surface of an epithelial cell.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- millicuries — Plural form of millicurie.
- mimosaceous — belonging to the Mimosaceae, now regarded as a subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the legume family.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscounting — Present participle of miscount.
- miseducated — Simple past tense and past participle of miseducate.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- misinstruct — To instruct badly or wrongly.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monoclinous — (of a plant, species, etc.) having both the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- moscow mule — a cocktail of vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multiaccess — a system in which several users are permitted to have apparently simultaneous access to a computer
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
- multicausal — having multiple causes
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multicuspid — (in humans) a tooth with a single projection point or elevation; canine.
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- multiscreen — Having multiple screens.
- multisource — Employing multiple sources.
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- murder case — a murder that is being investigated by the police, or tried in court