11-letter words containing um
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
- lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
- lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
- lumpenprole — a member of the lumpenproletariat.
- lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- maggotorium — a place where maggots are bred for use by fishers
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- magnum opus — a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.
- manumission — the act of manumitting.
- manumitting — Present participle of manumit.
- mare boreum — (Northern Sea) an area near the north pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- mare nubium — (Sea of Clouds) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 95,000 sq. mi. (245,000 sq. km).
- mass medium — any of the means of communication, as television or newspapers, that reach very large numbers of people.
- mass number — the integer nearest in value to the atomic weight of an atom and equal to the number of nucleons in the nucleus of the atom. Symbol: A.
- mediastinum — a median septum or partition between two parts of an organ, or paired cavities of the body.
- medium rare — lightly cooked, so as to be warm but still red in the middle
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- medium wave — Medium wave is a range of radio waves which are used for broadcasting.
- medium well — Meat that is medium well is cooked so that the inside is slightly pink.
- medium-term — The medium-term is the period of time which lasts a few months or years beyond the present time, in contrast with the short term or the long term.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- memory dump — (programming, operating system, jargon) (Or "core dump") A file on hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing a copy of the contents of a process's memory, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or signal.
- mendelevium — a transuranic element. Symbol: Md, Mv; atomic number: 101.
- menispermum — any of several tropical climbing plants of the genus Menispermum of the family Menispermaceae
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metalithium — A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
- microtrauma — (medicine) Any small, insignificant injury, but especially one of a series (such as suffered by athletes) that can lead to major injury.
- millenniums — Plural form of millennium.
- minifundium — A smallholding, in Latin America, that is too small to support a family.
- ministerium — an organization of local ministers or religious leaders who work with other community leaders on social or educational programs.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- multicolumn — having or relating to several columns