11-letter words containing n, o, t, m, u
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- quantum dot — (physics) (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of Coulomb charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size semiconductor structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
- quart minor — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
- quint minor — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
- recountment — the act or process of recounting or reciting something
- remunerator — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- rocky mount — a city in NE North Carolina.
- roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
- rumgumption — good sense
- ruminations — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
- stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stramineous — of or resembling straw.
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of 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.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- surmounting — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- tridominium — the shared rule of three states
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.