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12-letter words containing um

  • medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
  • mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • meum et tuum — mine and thine: used to express rights to property
  • microscopium — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Sagittarius and Capricornus
  • middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
  • mind-numbing — If you describe an event or experience as mind-numbing, you mean that it is so bad, boring, or great in extent that you are unable to think about it clearly.
  • minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
  • minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
  • missummation — an incorrect summation
  • mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
  • montezuma ii — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
  • monumentally — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
  • multi-volume — consisting of or encompassing several volumes: a multivolume encyclopedia.
  • mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
  • museum piece — something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
  • mycocecidium — a gall caused by a parasitic fungus.
  • mycodomatium — an abnormal growth on a plant, caused by fungi
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nom de plume — pen name.
  • non possumus — a statement that something cannot be done: The Pope would not accept a non possumus from the king.
  • non-consumer — a person or thing that consumes.
  • non-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
  • non-ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
  • nonconsuming — not consuming a resource, product, or service
  • nonincumbent — a candidate or party in an election that does not already hold the position
  • nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
  • nonpetroleum — not containing any petroleum based substance
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nudum pactum — a simple contract or promise involving no legal considerations.
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
  • numerousness — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
  • numinousness — The state or quality of being numinous.
  • numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
  • numismatists — Plural form of numismatist.
  • on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
  • opendocument — (file format, standard)   (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
  • opium addict — someone who is addicted to the dried juice extracted from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
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