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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.
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