8-letter words containing i, m, u, n
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nonmusic — any sound that does not constitute music; unpleasant noise
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- nudism's — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- numantia — an ancient city in N Spain: besieged and taken 134–133 b.c. by Scipio the Younger.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- numidian — an ancient country in N Africa, corresponding roughly to modern Algeria.
- numinous — of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- oncidium — any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of flowers showing great variety in size, form, and color.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
- opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- polonium — a radioactive element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898; Symbol: Po; atomic number: 84; atomic weight: about 210.
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- pumpking — pumpkin
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- relumine — to relume.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- rio muni — the mainland province of Equatorial Guinea on the Guinea coast: formerly the mainland portion of Spanish Guinea. 10,040 sq. mi. (26,003 sq. km).
- roumania — Romania.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- smudging — a dirty mark or smear.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- splenium — a structure in the brain