9-letter words containing m, a, n, u
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- iminourea — guanidine.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- in-humane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumanly — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- juice man — an extortionist.
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- kauffmann — Angelica (andʒeˈlikə). 1741–1807, Swiss painter, who worked chiefly in England
- kusimanse — (zoology) Several species of dwarf mongoose in genus Crossarchus.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lanthanum — a rare-earth, trivalent, metallic element, allied to aluminum, found in certain minerals, as monazite. Symbol: La; atomic weight: 138.91; atomic number: 57; specific gravity: 6.15 at 20°C.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
- luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mancunian — a native or resident of Manchester, England.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- manicheus — Manes.