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11-letter words containing ou

  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
  • motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
  • motor court — motel.
  • motor-mouth — a person who is a constant or irrepressible talker.
  • motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
  • mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
  • moundsville — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
  • mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
  • mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
  • mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
  • mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
  • mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
  • mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
  • mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
  • mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
  • mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
  • mountaintop — The summit or top part of a mountain.
  • mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
  • mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
  • moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
  • mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
  • mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
  • mouth ulcer — oral sore
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • move around — be mobile, active
  • movie house — a motion-picture theater.
  • muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
  • multanimous — having many sides
  • multicolour — (chiefly, British, and, Canada) alternative spelling of multicolor.
  • multicounty — involving or relating to several counties
  • multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • multijugous — having several pairs, especially pairs of leaflets; multijugate
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • multisource — Employing multiple sources.
  • murderously — In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.
  • murmurously — In a murmurous manner.
  • musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
  • mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
  • myelogenous — produced in the bone marrow.
  • myelomatous — Relating to a myeloma.
  • necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
  • nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
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