9-letter words containing a, n, i, m, u
- mannequin — a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- manualize — (transitive) To make manual.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- marijuana — hemp (def 1).
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- matutinal — pertaining to or occurring in the morning; early in the day.
- maudlinly — In a maudlin fashion.
- mauritian — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- maxim gun — an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- minuteman — (sometimes lowercase) a member of a group of American militiamen just before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves in readiness for instant military service.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mountainy — living in, located in, or related to mountains
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- mujahedin — Alt form mujahideen.
- mujahidin — Alternative form of mujahideen; Plural form of mujahid.
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- mullingar — a town in N central Republic of Ireland, the county town of Co Westmeath; site of cathedral; cattle raised. Pop: 15 621 (2002)
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".
- multilane — (of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- mundanity — the condition or quality of being mundane; mundaneness.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutuation — (obsolete) The act of borrowing or exchanging.