11-letter words containing m, u, s, l, a
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalism — a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- dismayfully — in a dismayful manner
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- emasculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emasculate.
- emasculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emasculate.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- esquamulose — Not covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formulators — Plural form of formulator.
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- glamorously — In a glamorous manner.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- illuminants — Plural form of illuminant.
- illuminates — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- implausible — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- implausibly — In an implausible or dubious manner.
- intramurals — Plural form of intramural.
- jumble sale — rummage sale.
- lamb's lugs — a perennial herb, Stachys lanata, planted for its foliage, which is covered with white woolly down; the purplish or striped flowers are small
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.