12-letter words containing u, n, s
- misconstruct — To construct wrongly.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misquotation — the act of misquoting.
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- mogul skiing — a skiing event in which skiers descend a slope which is covered in mounds of snow, making two jumps during the descent
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- momentaneous — brief or continuing for a short time only
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
- monks' mound — the largest of the Cahokia Mounds.
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monogamously — In a monogamous manner.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monophyllous — consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- monospermous — having one seed.
- monostichous — (of parts) forming one row
- monotonously — lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- mosquito net — a screen, curtain, or canopy of net, gauze, or the like, for keeping out mosquitoes.
- motion study — time and motion study.
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mount robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 ft)
- mount scopus — a mountain in central Israel, east of Jerusalem: a N extension of the Mount of Olives; site of the Hebrew University (1925). Height: 834 m (2736 ft)
- mount shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
- 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)
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.