10-letter words containing n, d, o, u
- monandrous — of, relating to, or characterized by monandry.
- money fund — a money-market fund.
- monodomous — living as a community in a single nest, as certain ant colonies.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- monopodium — a single main axis that continues to extend at the apex in the original line of growth, giving off lateral branches beneath in acropetal succession.
- monosodium — containing one atom of sodium.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- monumented — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mountained — having mountains
- mucedinous — of or resembling mold or mildew.
- mudlogging — the process of recording and checking for traces of oil in the mud in a drilling area
- multinodal — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- mundugumor — a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- murder one — first-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- muttonbird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonhead — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- nautiloids — Plural form of nautiloid.
- neurodynia — (pathology) nerve pain; neuralgia.
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- newshounds — Plural form of newshound.
- nidicolous — remaining in the nest for a period after hatching.
- nidifugous — leaving the nest shortly after hatching.
- nidulation — nest-building, nidification
- node house — a prefabricated shelter used by welders during the construction of an oil rig
- nodulation — The presence of nodules.
- non-devout — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
- nondualist — One who rejects dualism.
- nonduality — Lack of duality.
- nondurable — not resistant to wear, decay, etc.; not sturdy: nondurable fabrics.
- noninduced — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- noninsured — Not insured.
- nonplussed — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonstudent — a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
- nonsulfide — (of minerals) not containing a sulfide.
- nontenured — not having tenure.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- northbound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- notopodium — (zoology) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium.
- nouadhibou — a seaport in SW Mauritania.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleotide — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- nude mouse — a virtually hairless mutant laboratory-bred mouse having a major immune system deficiency caused by a lack of T cells, and able to accept grafts of foreign tissue.
- null modem — (communications, hardware) A cable, especially an EIA-232 cable, for connecting serial ports on two computers directly, rather than via modems. Since, according to the specification, both computers should transmit on pin three of their EIA-232 connectors and receive on pin two, a null modem cable needs to connect one computer's pin two to the other's pin three and vice versa. It also needs to have male connectors at both ends (again, according to the specification).
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus