8-letter words containing i, m, u, n
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- dummying — Present participle of dummy.
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dumpling — a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough, often served in soup or with stewed meat.
- ecumenic — Ecumenical.
- edmund i — a.d. 921?–946, English king 940–946.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- encomium — A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
- enlumine — to illuminate
- eryngium — (botany) Any of the genus Eryngium of umbelliferous plants resembling thistles.
- eugenism — the practice or advocacy of eugenics
- eumenine — Of, or pertaining to, the potter wasps of the subfamily Eumeninae.
- euonymin — an extract obtained from the bark of the spindle tree (Euonymus atropurpureus)
- exhuming — Present participle of exhume.
- exonumia — Coinlike objects.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- fulminic — highly explosive; unstable.
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- geminous — found in pairs
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- glucinum — (formerly) beryllium. Symbol: Gl.
- gluonium — glueball.
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- grumping — Present participle of grump.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gunsmith — a person who makes or repairs firearms.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hinduism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanism — any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
- humanist — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanity — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- illinium — promethium. Symbol: Il.
- illumine — Light up ; brighten.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.