11-letter words containing m, u, s, h, o
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house mouse — a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
- 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.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- humoresques — Plural form of humoresque.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hypernymous — Having the qualities of a hypernym.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- isomorphous — (of a compound or mineral) capable of crystallizing in a form similar to that of another compound or mineral, used especially of substances so closely related that they form end members of a series of solid solutions.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- lithotomous — of or relating to the surgical removal of a stone from the bladder
- lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- movie house — a motion-picture theater.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- not so much — less