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12-letter words containing m, u, t, o

  • autotoxaemia — autointoxication.
  • autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
  • ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
  • backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard
  • banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
  • causationism — the theory of universal causation
  • cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
  • chlorophytum — any plant of the genus Chlorophytum, esp C. elatum variegatum, grown as a pot plant for its long narrow leaves with a light central stripe, and characterized by the production of offsets at the end of long scapes: family Liliaceae
  • chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
  • circumrotary — Alternative form of circumrotatory.
  • circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
  • circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
  • coconut palm — A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.
  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
  • columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • come out for — to announce one's approval of; endorse
  • come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
  • come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
  • commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
  • common touch — the ability to communicate with, appeal to, or inspire ordinary people.
  • communicants — Plural form of communicant.
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