12-letter words containing un
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- message unit — a measure of the duration of and distance covered by local telephone calls, used by telephone companies as a basis for assessing service charges.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monks' mound — the largest of the Cahokia Mounds.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- mount desert — island off the S coast of Me.: resort: c. 100 sq mi (259 sq km)
- mount egmont — an extinct volcano in New Zealand, in W central North Island in the Egmont National Park: an almost perfect cone. Height: 2518 m (8261 ft)
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- 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 katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- 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 scopus — a mountain in central Israel, east of Jerusalem: a N extension of the Mount of Olives; site of the Hebrew University (1925). Height: 834 m (2736 ft)
- mount shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
- 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)
- mount vernon — the home and tomb of George Washington in NE Virginia, on the Potomac, 15 miles (24 km) below Washington, D.C.
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- mountain cat — any of various wild feline mammals, such as the bobcat, lynx, or puma
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountain top — the top of a natural upward projection of the earth's surface, higher and steeper than a hill and often having a rocky summit
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- 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.
- multungulate — a hoofed animal with three or more toes on each foot
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- munificently — In a munificent manner.
- munitionette — a female munitions-factory worker, esp during the First World War
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
- non-communal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- non-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- non-punitive — not involving or exerting punishment
- noncommunist — not following, belonging to, or associated with the Communist Party or Communism.