12-letter words containing m, u, s, e, o
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- hydromedusae — Irregular plural form of hydromedusa.
- idiothermous — warm-blooded
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- luminousness — The condition of being luminous.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- measure zero — the property of a set of points for which, given any small number, there exists a set of intervals such that each point of the given set is contained in at least one of the intervals and such that, essentially, the combined length of the intervals is less than the small number.
- meetinghouse — A Quaker place of worship.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- mesomorphous — mesomorphic
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.