8-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- maturest — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- maximums — Plural form of maximum.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatuses — Plural form of meatus.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- mezuzahs — Plural form of mezuzah.
- miasmous — miasmal
- mikasuki — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- misgauge — To gauge (measure) incorrectly.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- mousemat — a piece of material on which a computer mouse is moved
- moussaka — a baked dish consisting of layers of sautéed slices of eggplant and ground lamb usually flavored with tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon, and covered with a custard sauce sprinkled with grated cheese.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mudbanks — Plural form of mudbank.
- mudbaths — Plural form of mudbath.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudflats — Plural form of mudflat.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- mundanes — Plural form of mundane.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- muntjacs — Plural form of muntjac.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas