9-letter words containing i, m, u
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- automatic — An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- avizandum — a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
- azimuthal — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- ballismus — a condition characterized by twisting, shaking, and jerking motions.
- bdelliums — Plural form of bdellium.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- berkelium — a metallic transuranic element produced by bombardment of americium. Symbol: Bk; atomic no: 97; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Bk: 1400 years; valency: 3 or 4; relative density: 14 (est)
- bermudian — a native or inhabitant of Bermuda
- beryllium — a corrosion-resistant toxic silvery-white metallic element that occurs chiefly in beryl and is used mainly in X-ray windows and in the manufacture of alloys. Symbol: Be; atomic no: 4; atomic wt: 9.012; valency: 2; relative density: 1.848; melting pt: 1289°C; boiling pt: 2472°C
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- big muddy — a nickname of the Missouri River.
- bisellium — an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.
- bismuthic — of or containing bismuth in the pentavalent state
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- bismutite — a mineral, bismuth carbonate, resulting from the alteration of bismuth minerals: a minor source of bismuth.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- bretylium — a substance, C 18 H 24 BrNO 3 S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bulb mite — a widespread mite, Rhizaglophus eclinops, that tunnels in the bulbs of lilies and other plants
- bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
- bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumpkinly — like a bumpkin
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- caciquism — (esp in Spanish America) government by local political bosses
- cacuminal — relating to or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back towards the hard palate
- caladiums — Plural form of caladium.
- caldarium — (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calvarium — the upper, domed part of the skull
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capsicums — Plural form of capsicum.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- casualism — the doctrine that the existence and occurrence of everything is controlled by chance
- caudiform — (zoology) Resembling a tail.
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery