9-letter words containing o, n, e, u
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- lousiness — infested with lice.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
- manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- melungeon — a member of a people of mixed white, black, and American Indian ancestry living in the southern Appalachians.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- minutiose — attentive to very small details
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- momentous — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- momentums — Plural form of momentum.
- monecious — monoecious.
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monocoque — a type of boat, aircraft, or rocket construction in which the shell carries most of the stresses.
- monologue — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- monsieurs — Plural form of monsieur.
- montezuma — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- monuments — Plural form of monument.
- moonquake — a seismic vibration of the moon's surface.
- mountable — Able to be mounted.
- mousiness — The property of being mousy.
- moutonnee — noting or pertaining to a rock formation having a rounded outline like the back of a sheep, resulting from glacial action. Compare roche moutonnée.
- mucinogen — any of a group of substances from which mucins are derived
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- mullioned — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- multitone — having or characterized by more than one musical tone
- multizone — Of or pertaining to more than one zone.
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- muskmelon — a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.