11-letter words containing o, u, s, t, e
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lounge suit — a man's suit appropriate for informal occasions.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- meritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- moisturiser — (British) alternative spelling of moisturizer.
- moisturized — Simple past tense and past participle of moisturize.
- moisturizer — a cosmetic preparation, as a cream or lotion, used to restore moisture to the skin, especially of the face and neck.
- moisturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisturize.
- momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monoestrous — monestrous.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multisource — Employing multiple sources.
- multistorey — Alternative spelling of multi-storey.
- museologist — the systematic study of the organization, management, and function of a museum.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muster roll — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- myelomatous — Relating to a myeloma.
- mystagogues — Plural form of mystagogue.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.