8-letter words containing u, m
- missouri — 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.
- missuses — Plural form of missus.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
- mistruth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- misusers — Plural form of misuser.
- misusing — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- mittimus — a warrant of commitment to prison.
- mixed up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
- mixed-up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
- mixtures — Plural form of mixture.
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- mock sun — parhelion.
- modiolus — the central, conical axis of the cochlea of the ear.
- modula-2 — (language) A high-level programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in 1978. It is a derivative of Pascal with well-defined interfaces between modules, and facilities for parallel computation. Modula-2 was developed as the system language for the Lilith workstation. The central concept is the module which may be used to encapsulate a set of related subprograms and data structures, and restrict their visibility from other portions of the program. Each module has a definition part giving the interface, and an implementation part. The language provides limited single-processor concurrency (monitors, coroutines and explicit transfer of control) and hardware access (absolute addresses and interrupts). It uses name equivalence.
- modula-3 — L. Cardelli et al, DEC and Olivetti, 1988. A descendant of Modula-2+ and Cedar, designed for safety and simplicity. Objects, generics, threads, exceptions and garbage collection. Modules are explicitly safe or unsafe. As in Mesa, any set of variables can be monitored. No multiple inheritance, no operator overloading. Uses structural equivalence. "Modula-3 Report", Luca Cardelli et al, TR 52, DEC SRC, and Olivetti Research Center, Aug 1988 (revised Oct 1989). The changes are described in "System Programming with Modula-3", Greg Nelson ed, P-H 1991, ISBN 0-13-590464-1. "Modula-3", Sam Harbison, P-H 1992. Version: SRC Modula-3 V1.5. See also SRC Modula-3.
- modula-p — "Modula-P: A Language for Parallel Programming Definition and Implementation on a Transputer Network", R. Hoffart et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs 1992.
- modulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- mofussil — (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three w East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- mole run — any part of a system of underground tunnels, rooms, etc, prepared for use in the event of nuclear war
- molecule — Chemistry, Physics. the smallest physical unit of an element or compound, consisting of one or more like atoms in an element and two or more different atoms in a compound.
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mollusks — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- molossus — a type of foot in metre that contains three long syllables
- moluccan — of or relating to a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 2 223 000 (1999 est). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- mon dieu — my God
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- monmouth — James Scott, Duke of, 1649–85, illegitimate son of Charles II of England and pretender to the throne of James II.
- monobuoy — a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload.
- monocule — (zoology) A small crustacean with one median eye.
- monofuel — a fuel that is made up of a single constituent and has nothing added to it
- monohull — (of a vessel) having a single hull.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- moondust — The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- moquette — a type of fabric with a thick, velvety pile, used for carpets and in upholstering.