8-letter words containing m, u, s, l
- misrules — Plural form of misrule.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- modiolus — the central, conical axis of the cochlea of the ear.
- mofussil — (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three w East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mollusks — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- molossus — a type of foot in metre that contains three long syllables
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mouflons — Plural form of mouflon.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- muddlers — Plural form of muddler.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- mudsills — Plural form of mudsill.
- mudslide — mudflow.
- mufflers — Plural form of muffler.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- mulishly — In a mulish manner.
- mullings — Plural form of mulling.
- mullions — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- multitos — (operating system) (MTOS) A new version of TOS. MultiTOS's main advantage was support for pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection. It also supported the latest (and far superior) versions of GEM. MultiTOS was supplied with the Falcon030 range of computers from Atari. It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS kernel was based heavily on the freeware OS MinT which was developed long before Atari got MultiTOS working.
- multiuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- muscling — Present participle of muscle.
- muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musculo- — muscle, muscle and
- museless — Uncultured.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- musicals — Plural form of musical.
- musingly — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- muslined — draped or covered with muslin
- muslinet — a thick type of muslin
- mustelid — any of numerous carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, comprising the weasels, martens, skunks, badgers, and otters.
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- numskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- outsmell — to have a more powerful smell than
- outsmile — to outdo in smiling or overcome by smiling
- paludism — malaria.
- paspalum — any of various grasses of the genus Paspalum of Australia and New Zealand having wide leaves
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).