7-letter words containing h, u, m
- mahouts — Plural form of mahout.
- mahuang — a Chinese shrub, Ephedra sinica, that is a source of ephedrine.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- manhour — Alternative form of man-hour.
- manhunt — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- mash-up — Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
- mashups — Plural form of mashup.
- matchup — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- mathura — a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India: Hindu shrine and holy city; reputed birthplace of Krishna.
- mauchly — John William, 1907–80, U.S. physicist and coinventor of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer 1946.
- maugham — W(illiam) Somerset [suhm-er-set,, -sit] /ˈsʌm ərˌsɛt,, -sɪt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.
- maunche — a conventional representation of a sleeve with a flaring end, used as a charge.
- mauther — a girl
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- mcluhan — Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.
- mehuman — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- menuhin — Yehudi [yuh-hoo-dee] /yəˈhu di/ (Show IPA), 1916–1999, British violinist, born in U.S.
- meshuga — crazy; insane.
- methuen — a town in NE Massachusetts, near Lawrence.
- mezuzah — a parchment scroll inscribed on one side with the Biblical passages Deut. 6:4–9 and 11:13–21 and on the other side with the word Shaddai (a name applied to God), inserted in a small case or tube so that Shaddai is visible through an aperture in front, and attached by some Jews to the doorpost of the home.
- michaux — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1984, French poet and painter, born in Belgium.
- milhaud — Darius [da-ryys] /daˈryüs/ (Show IPA), 1892–1974, French composer, in U.S. from 1940.
- mishuga — meshuga
- mitchum — Robert (Charles) 1917–97, U.S. actor.
- morrhua — a codfish
- mouched — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- moucher — someone who eats hungrily or greedily
- mouthed — having a mouth of a specified kind (often used in combination): a small-mouthed man.
- mouther — A person who mouths.
- mouthes — (archaic, dialectal) Plural form of mouth.
- mouthly — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.
- much as — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- mud hen — any of various marsh-inhabiting birds, especially the American coot.
- mud hut — a small basic shelter
- mudbath — Alternative spelling of mud bath.
- mudfish — any of various fishes that live in muddy waters, as the bowfin or mummichog.
- mudhead — (games) A MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc. with the consolation, however, that they made wizard level. When encountered in person, on a MUD or in a chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favourite MUD; why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write because his/her design ideas are so much better than in any existing MUD. See also wannabee. To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or "koyemshi", mythical half-formed children of an unnatural union. Figures representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.
- mudhole — a depression in which mud collects.
- mudhook — an anchor
- muffish — incompetent, stupid
- mugshot — 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.
- muhajir — (Islam) a person who has performed the hajj.
- mujahid — (Islam) A Muslim engaging in jihad, especially armed jihad; a jihadist.
- mukhtar — The head of a village in many Arab countries and in Cyprus.
- mulched — Simple past tense and past participle of mulch.
- mulcher — a person or thing that mulches.
- mulches — Plural form of mulch.
- mülheim — city in W Germany, on the Ruhr, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 177,000
- mullahs — Plural form of mullah.