11-letter words containing i, u, m
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- fume-filled — filled with pungent or toxic vapours
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gametangium — an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- gippy tummy — diarrhoea, esp as experienced by visitors to hot climates
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- gourmandise — unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gourmandize — to enjoy fine food and drink, especially often and in lavish quantity.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- guestimates — Plural form of guestimate.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gum disease — dental infection
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gunsmithing — The craft of a gunsmith.
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- gymnodinium — any marine or freshwater dinoflagellate of the genus Gymnodinium, certain species of which cause red tide.
- gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
- gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)