8-letter words containing h, u, m
- schellum — a person or an animal that is a rascal or villain
- schlumpy — like a schlump
- schmutzy — Slang. dirty; grimy.
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- smash up — destroy, break into pieces
- smash-up — the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- sphygmus — the pulse.
- squamish — a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern coast of British Columbia.
- subhuman — less than or not quite human.
- subhumid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- subtheme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- sumphish — stupid, sulky
- tecumseh — 1768?–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe.
- thalamus — Anatomy. the middle part of the diencephalon through which sensory impulses pass to reach the cerebral cortex.
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- the drum — the necessary information (esp in the phrase give (someone) the drum)
- the hump — a fit of depression or sulking (esp in the phrase it gives me the hump)
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- thrombus — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thumbnut — wing nut.
- thumbpot — a tiny flowerpot
- thumping — of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thutmose — flourished c1475 b.c, Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- too much — an excess of
- truchman — an interpreter
- tsushima — two adjacent Japanese islands between Korea and Kyushu: Russian fleet defeated by Japanese fleet 1905. 271 sq. mi. (702 sq. km).
- umeboshi — a salty and tart Japanese condiment made from unripened plums pickled in a brine.
- umquhile — (esp of a person now dead) former or previous
- umteenth — of an indefinitely large number in succession: He was the umpteenth person to arrive.
- unharmed — physical injury or mental damage; hurt: to do him bodily harm.
- unhomely — not homely
- unmodish — passé, unfashionable
- unrhymed — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- unsmooth — coarse or unrefined
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- vermouth — an aromatized white wine in which herbs, roots, barks, bitters, and other flavorings have been steeped.
- warmouth — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis gulosus, of the eastern U.S., having a patch of small teeth on its tongue.
- weymouth — a town in E Massachusetts, S of Boston.
- whomp up — a loud, heavy blow, slap, bang, or the like: He fell with an awful whomp.