6-letter words containing i, m, u
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- pumice — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- quamin — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quidam — an unspecified or inconsequential person
- radium — Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- rimous — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- rumaki — a dish of chicken liver and sliced water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
- rumkin — a drinking vessel
- siglum — an abbreviation used by scribes writing in ancient and medieval Latin
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- sodium — Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- squirm — to wriggle or writhe.
- submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- sufism — the ascetic and mystical system of the Sufis.
- sumi-e — (in fine arts) a monochrome painting executed in ink: Zen painters were masters of sumi-e.
- summit — a city in NE New Jersey.
- sumpit — in Malaysia, a long wooden blowpipe, from which poison-tipped or barbed darts are blown, used primarily for hunting
- surimi — a paste of inexpensive fish shaped, colored, and flavored in imitation of lobster meat, crabmeat, etc.
- tedium — the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
- telium — the cluster of spore cases of the rust and smut fungi, bearing teliospores.
- thimbu — a city in and the capital of Bhutan, in the W part.
- timaru — a seaport on the E coast of South Island, in S New Zealand.
- timour — Tamerlane.
- timucu — a needlefish, Strongylura timucu, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic.
- tomium — the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- truism — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- tumuli — Archaeology. an artificial mound, especially over a grave; barrow.
- ultima — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- ultimo — in or of the month preceding the current one: on the 12th ultimo. Abbreviation: ult., ulto. Compare instant (def 11), proximo.
- umbria — an ancient district in central and N Italy.
- umfazi — an African married woman
- umpire — a person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
- umtali — former name of Mutare.
- unfirm — soft or unsteady
- unlime — to remove the lime from (something, for example animal hides during the preparation process)
- unmiry — not boggy, marshy, or dirty
- untrim — in poor condition; unfit; unsound
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- uremia — a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- uremic — pertaining to uremia.
- urumqi — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
- valium — Valium is a drug given to people to calm their nerves when they are very depressed or upset.
- viscum — a member of a genus of parasitic shrubs, which includes the European mistletoe
- vitrum — (in prescriptions) glass.
- xenium — A gift or offering.
- yumpie — a young, well-educated person who has a professional career and aspires to a higher social and economic status; yuppie.