12-letter words containing u, n, a, r, m, o
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- mount sorata — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real, with two peaks, Ancohuma, 6550 m (21 490 ft), and Illampu, 6485 m (21 276 ft)
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.
- murmurations — Plural form of murmuration.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- mutarotation — a gradual change in the optical rotation of freshly prepared solutions of reducing sugars.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- neurilemmoma — A schwannoma.
- neuroanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
- neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- non-ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonglamorous — not glamorous
- nonmercurial — not composed of, resembling, or containing mercury
- nonmolecular — not molecular, not made up of or relating to molecules
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- not-a-number — (mathematics) (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum