8-letter words containing i, m, u, n
- manutius — Aldus [awl-duh s,, al-] /ˈɔl dəs,, ˈæl-/ (Show IPA), (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio) 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- maulmain — Moulmein.
- mcguffin — an object or event in a book or a film that serves as the impetus for the plot
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- meringue — merengue.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- milk run — a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.
- mill run — a quantity of ore whose quality or mineral content is tested by milling
- mill-run — coming directly from a mill, especially without having been sorted: mill-run carpets.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- mind you — although, having said that
- mindfuck — the deliberate infliction of psychological damage
- mindfull — Archaic form of mindful.
- minimums — Plural form of minimum.
- mininuke — a low-powered nuclear device.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- minuends — Plural form of minuend.
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- minutest — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- minutial — having the nature of minutiae, or relating to minutiae
- minuting — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- miquelon — St. Pierre and Miquelon.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- misusing — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- mon dieu — my God
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- 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.
- moulinet — a portable pulley device for bending crossbow or turning the drum of a crane
- moulmein — a seaport in S Burma at the mouth of the Salween River.
- moulting — Present participle of moult.
- mounding — a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mounties — Plural form of mountie.
- mounting — A backing, setting, or support for something.