12-letter words containing u, r, m, s
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- 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.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.
- mitre square — a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- moistureless — Devoid of moisture.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- moisturizing — Present participle of moisturize.
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monospermous — having one seed.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mother house — a convent housing a mother superior of a community of nuns.
- motherhouses — Plural form of motherhouse.
- 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 robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 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.
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- 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.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- mouse trails — (operating system) A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mousquetaire — musketeer.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- mullet dress — a dress whose skirt is cut short at the front but long at the back
- multi-storey — A multi-storey building has several floors at different levels above the ground.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.