8-letter words containing a, r, u, m
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- guar gum — a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- harmfull — Archaic form of harmful.
- harrumph — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- immature — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- irrumate — To practice irrumation; to insert the penis violently into another's mouth.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jurymast — a temporary mast assembled to replace a broken one
- kamakura — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.
- kara kum — a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laburnum — 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.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- macroura — Macruran.
- macrural — (zoology) macrurous.
- macruran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Macrura, comprising the lobsters, crayfishes, shrimps, and prawns.
- madurese — a member of a people native to the island of Madura and also inhabiting the northeastern coast of Java.
- maiasaur — a large hadrosaur, Maiasaura peeblesorum, that is thought to have cared for its young.
- mairehau — a small aromatic shrub Phebalium nudum, of New Zealand's North Island
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- mamurius — a smith who made 11 copies of the Ancile to prevent thieves from recognizing the original.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuvre — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manjusri — a Bodhisattva personifying wisdom.
- manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
- manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- manuhiri — a visitor to a Māori marae
- manurial — Of or pertaining to manure.
- manuring — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- maracuja — A passion fruit.
- marasmus — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- marauded — to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory.
- marauder — to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.