8-letter words containing e, m, u
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.
- coassume — to assume jointly
- coliseum — a large building, such as a stadium or theatre, used for entertainments, sports, etc
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- columned — Having columns.
- come out — When a new product such as a book or CD comes out, it becomes available to the public.
- comenius — John Amos, Czech name Jan Amos Komensky. 1592–1670, Czech educational reformer
- communed — Simple past tense and past participle of commune.
- communer — a person who participates in the Eucharist
- communes — Plural form of commune.
- commuted — to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- commutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commute.
- comnenus — an important Byzantine family from which the imperial dynasties of Constantinople (1057–59; 1081–1185) and Trebizond (1204–1461) derived
- compulse — to compel
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute.
- consumed — If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed.
- consumer — A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
- consumes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consume.
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- costumes — Plural form of costume.
- costumey — resembling a costume and therefore unrealistic
- cpu time — processor time
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crumenal — a purse
- crummier — Also, crumby. Slang. dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel. of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use. wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumpled — creased
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cu-seeme — (communications) /see`-yoo-see'-mee/ ("CU" from Cornell University) A shareware personal computer-based videoconferencing program for use over the Internet, developed at Cornell University, starting in 1992. CU-SeeMe allows for direct audiovisual connections between clients, or, like irc, it can support multi-user converencing via servers (here called "reflectors") to distribute the video and audio signals between multiple clients. CU-SeeMe was the first videoconferencing tool available at a reasonable price (in this case, free) to users of personal computers. Compare with multicast backbone.
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cumacean — any small malacostracan marine crustacean of the Cumacea family, mostly dwelling on the sea bed but sometimes found among the plankton
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.