12-letter words containing o, m, e, n, t, u
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melliloquent — Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
- methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- momentaneous — brief or continuing for a short time only
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- montezuma ii — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
- monumentally — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
- mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
- motor neuron — a nerve cell that conducts impulses to a muscle, gland, or other effector.
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mount egmont — an extinct volcano in New Zealand, in W central North Island in the Egmont National Park: an almost perfect cone. Height: 2518 m (8261 ft)
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mount vernon — the home and tomb of George Washington in NE Virginia, on the Potomac, 15 miles (24 km) below Washington, D.C.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- mucopurulent — containing or composed of mucus and pus.
- multiloquent — Talkative.
- multimegaton — (of a nuclear weapon) having several megatons of explosive power
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- multisensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- multisession — Involving multiple sessions.
- multivoltine — producing several broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths; polyvoltine.