9-letter words containing m, c, n, u
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- ice-minus — noting or pertaining to genetically altered bacteria used on crops to inhibit frost formation.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- juice man — an extortionist.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- 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.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- miniscule — minuscule.
- minuscule — very small.
- miscounts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscount.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- monecious — monoecious.
- monocoque — a type of boat, aircraft, or rocket construction in which the shell carries most of the stresses.
- monocular — having only one eye.
- monoicous — Alternative form of monoecious.
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- montlucon — a city in central France.
- mucinogen — any of a group of substances from which mucins are derived
- muckender — (obsolete) A handkerchief.
- muckiness — The quality of being mucky.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- multician — (jargon, person) /muhl-ti'shn/ A term coined at Honeywell, ca. 1970 for a competent user of Multics. Perhaps oddly, no one has ever promoted the analogous "Unician".