8-letter words containing g, o, m, u
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- moulding — a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
- moulting — Present participle of moult.
- mounding — a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- mounting — A backing, setting, or support for something.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mousings — Plural form of mousing.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- mug shot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- mugshots — Plural form of mugshot.
- mundungo — (in Spain) tripe
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- musk hog — the collared peccary. See under peccary.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskogee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- ocmulgee — a river in NW Georgia, flowing SE to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- plumbago — graphite.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- snow gum — any of various eucalyptus trees that grow at high altitude, esp Eucalyptus pauciflora
- sour gum — a cornaceous tree, Nyssa sylvatica, of the eastern US, having glossy leaves, soft wood, and sour purplish fruits
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- trigonum — trigone.
- unmoving — not moving; still; motionless.
- upcoming — coming up; about to take place, appear, or be presented: the upcoming spring fashions.
- zumology — (dated, 19th century) alternative spelling of zymology.