9-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- humanness — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- huntsmans — (Australia) Plural form of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jump pass — a pass in which a player leaps into the air and throws the ball to a teammate before returning to the ground.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- kusimanse — (zoology) Several species of dwarf mongoose in genus Crossarchus.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.