10-letter words containing r, u, i
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation
- minaudiere — a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- miniatures — Plural form of miniature.
- minicourse — a short, intensive course of study, usually a few weeks long.
- minor suit — diamonds or clubs.
- miracidium — the larva that hatches from the egg of a trematode worm or fluke.
- miraculous — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- mirthfully — In a mirthful manner.
- misandrous — Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
- misfeature — a distorted feature.
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mismeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- missourian — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of mistrust.
- mistruster — One who mistrusts.
- misventure — an unfortunate undertaking; misadventure.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularity — the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system.
- modularize — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moisturise — to add or restore moisture to (something): to moisturize one's skin with lotion; to moisturize air.
- moisturize — to add or restore moisture to (something): to moisturize one's skin with lotion; to moisturize air.
- moratorium — a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- moribundly — In a moribund way.
- morigerous — acquiescent, obedient, servile
- mortuaries — Plural form of mortuary.
- morulation — (biology) The cleavage or segmentation of the ovum by which a morula is formed.
- motor unit — a motor neuron and the muscle fibers innervated by its axon.
- moudiewart — a mole
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mourningly — In a mourning manner; grievingly.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- muciferous — secreting or containing mucus.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- mule train — a line of pack mules or a line of wagons drawn by mules.
- muliebrity — womanly nature or qualities.
- mulligrubs — ill temper; colic; grumpiness.
- multi-role — a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- multi-user — (operating system) A term describing an operating system or application program that can be used by several people concurrently; opposite of single-user. Unix is an example of a multi-user operating system, whereas most (but not all) versions of Microsoft Windows are intended to support only one user at a time. A multi-user system, by definition, supports concurrent processing of multiple tasks (once known as "time-sharing") or true parallel processing if it has multiple CPUs. While batch processing systems often ran jobs for serveral users concurrently, the term "multi-user" typically implies interactive access. Before Ethernet networks were commonplace, multi-user systems were accessed from a terminal (e.g. a vt100) connected via a serial line (typically RS-232). This arrangement was eventually superseded by networked personal computers, perhaps sharing files on a file server. With the wide-spread availability of Internet connections, the idea of sharing centralised resources is becoming trendy again with cloud computing and managed applications, though this time it is the overhead of administering the system that is being shared rather than the cost of the hardware. In gaming, both on PCs and games consoles, the equivalent term is multi-player, though the first multi-player games (e.g. ADVENT) were on multi-user computers.
- multi-year — a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
- multiarmed — having multiple arms
- multicolor — of many colors; multicolored.
- multicurie — having a radioactivity of more than one curie