9-letter words containing c, e, u, m
- humective — tending to moisten
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- ice-minus — noting or pertaining to genetically altered bacteria used on crops to inhibit frost formation.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- juice man — an extortionist.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lame duck — an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- leucaemia — Alternative spelling of leukemia.
- leucotome — an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukaemic — relating to, or affected by, leukaemia
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mccullers — Carson [kahr-suh n] /ˈkɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1917–1967, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meet cute — to meet for the first time, often in a contrived or unusual way
- meet-cute — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melaleuca — any of various chiefly Australian shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Melaleuca, of the myrtle family, including the cajeput and several species of bottlebrush.