8-letter words containing m, a, n, u
- numidian — an ancient country in N Africa, corresponding roughly to modern Algeria.
- nummular — pertaining to coins or money; nummary.
- nuoc mam — a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
- nutmeats — the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- 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.
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- puntsman — a man in charge of a river punt
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- ramanuja — 1017–1134, Indian leader of the Shri-Vaishnavite sect.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- roumania — Romania.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- 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 amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- sandpump — a pump for wet sand
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- 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.
- soundman — a sound recorder in a television crew
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- squawman — a White or other non-American-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman
- stuntman — a man who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- subhuman — less than or not quite human.
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- tamandua — a tree-dwelling, tropical American anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla, having a prehensile tail, four-clawed forelimbs, and coarse, tan hair with black markings on the trunk.
- tantalum — a gray, hard, rare, metallic element occurring in columbite and tantalite and usually associated with niobium: used, because of its resistance to corrosion by most acids, for chemical, dental, and surgical instruments and apparatus. Symbol: Ta; atomic weight: 180.948; atomic number: 73; specific gravity: 16.6.
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.