11-letter words containing u, r, s, a
- muscatorium — a flabellum or fan, esp the ceremonial fan carried before the pope
- muscle mary — a homosexual man who practises bodybuilding
- muscularity — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musculature — the muscular system of the body or of its parts.
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- music drama — an opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- mustard gas — an oily liquid, C 4 H 8 Cl 2 S, used as a chemical-warfare gas, blistering the skin and damaging the lungs, often causing blindness and death: introduced by the Germans in World War I.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- narcissuses — Plural form of narcissus.
- nasturtiums — Plural form of nasturtium.
- natriuresis — excretion of sodium in the urine.
- natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
- naturalised — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of naturalise.
- naturalists — Plural form of naturalist.
- naturalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of naturalize.
- naturalness — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- neural nets — artificial neural network
- neurilemmas — Plural form of neurilemma.
- neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neutralised — Simple past tense and past participle of neutralise.
- neutralises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neutralise.
- neutralists — a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- neutralizes — (American spelling) alternative spelling of neutralisest; Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neutralize.
- neutralness — The state or quality of being neutral.
- nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
- nitrosourea — any of various lipid-soluble, synthetic or naturally occurring alkylating agents that can cross the blood-brain barrier: used in the treatment of certain brain cancers.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nonreusable — not capable of being reused
- nonsingular — not singular. Compare singular (def 7).
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- nonvascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- normanesque — in the style of Norman architecture, a variety of Romanesque architecture.
- nose around — pry, snoop
- nostradamus — (Michel de Nostredame) 1503–66, French astrologer.
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nuclear sap — karyolymph
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nulliparous — a woman who has never borne a child.
- numerations — Plural form of numeration.
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.