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13-letter words containing n, u, m, a

  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • mucocutaneous — Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes and the skin.
  • muhammadanism — Islam.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • multi-tasking — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multifilament — having two or more filaments: multifilament yarn.
  • multilocation — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
  • multinational — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
  • multinucleate — having a nucleus.
  • multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
  • multiplatinum — Denoting or relating to a musical recording that has sold more than two million copies.
  • multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
  • multiregional — of, relating to or involving several regions
  • multistandard — able to process signals from several different systems
  • multistranded — having several strands
  • multitalented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
  • multiterminal — Having, or supporting, multiple terminals (in all senses).
  • multitracking — the process of recording separate audio tracks for later mixing into a single audio track.
  • multivitamins — Plural form of multivitamin.
  • mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
  • municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
  • munsell scale — a standard chromaticity scale used in specifying colour. It gives approximately equal changes in visual hue
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
  • mutation stop — an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced
  • mutato nomine — the name having been changed.
  • mutt and jeff — a very short and a very tall person who are paired as companions, teammates, or associates.
  • mutualization — to make mutual.
  • muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
  • my giddy aunt — an exclamation of surprise
  • nautical mile — a unit of distance used chiefly in navigation, equal to 6080.20 feet (1853.25 meters) in the U.S., now replaced by the international nautical mile.
  • neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
  • neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
  • neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
  • neuroanatomic — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
  • neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • neurohormonal — pertaining to or controlled by a neurohormone.
  • neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
  • new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
  • new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
  • nizam al-mulk — title of Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Ali. ?1018–92, Persian statesman; vizier of Persia (1063–92) for the Seljuk sultans: assassinated
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