11-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monoestrous — monestrous.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monseigneur — a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- morning gun — a gun fired at the first note of reveille.
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- move around — be mobile, active
- mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- munitioneer — a munitions-factory worker
- munoz marin — Luis [lwees] /lwis/ (Show IPA), 1898–1980, Puerto Rican political leader: governor 1948–64.
- mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
- murmuration — an act or instance of murmuring.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- mutteration — the act of muttering
- mutton bird — 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.
- mutton corn — sweet corn, especially when ripe and ready for eating on the cob.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- naturopathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- nervousness — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nervuration — the arrangement of the veins in the wing of an insect.
- neuroactive — affecting or interacting directly with the nervous system
- neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.