9-letter words containing a, t, u, m
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- commutate — to reverse the direction of (an electric current)
- commutual — mutual
- computant — a person who calculates
- consumate — Misspelling of consummate.
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dismutase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.
- dramaturg — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- dumaguete — a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- edematous — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- edumacate — (humorous) deliberate misspelling of educate.
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- emaculate — (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
- emulating — Present participle of emulate.
- emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- emulative — Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
- emulators — Plural form of emulator.
- enumerate — Mention (a number of things ) one by one.
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- famagusta — a seaport on the E coast of Cyprus, on an inlet of the Mediterranean: castle; large cathedral (now a mosque).
- famousest — Superlative form of famous.
- farm-toun — a farmhouse together with its outbuildings
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- fat mouse — any nocturnal African mouse of the genus Steatomys, of dry regions: eaten as a delicacy by Africans because of their high fat content: family Muridae
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.