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11-letter words containing t, u, m

  • monologuist — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
  • monostylous — having only one style.
  • monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
  • 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.
  • monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
  • monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
  • moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
  • moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
  • mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
  • mosquitoing — Present participle of mosquito.
  • 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-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
  • 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.
  • motor court — motel.
  • motor truck — truck1 (def 1).
  • motor-mouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
  • motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
  • motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
  • mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
  • mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
  • mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
  • mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
  • mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
  • mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
  • mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
  • mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
  • mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
  • mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
  • mountaintop — The summit or top part of a mountain.
  • mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
  • moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
  • mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
  • mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
  • mouth ulcer — oral sore
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.
  • mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
  • mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
  • mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
  • multangular — having many angles; polyangular.
  • multanimous — having many sides
  • multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
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