9-letter words containing m, e, r, u
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outermore — Comparative form of outer.
- outermost — farthest out; remotest from the interior or center: the outermost limits.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- outremont — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- overmount — to surmount
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- penumbral — 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).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- perfumery — perfumes collectively.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permutate — to cause (something) to undergo permutation.
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
- premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- prompture — prompting
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pyrethrum — any of several chrysanthemums, as Chrysanthemum coccineum, having finely divided leaves and showy red, pink, lilac, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quarrymen — Plural form of quarryman.
- quercetum — a group of oak trees
- querimony — a complaint
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- rebutment — the act of rebutting something or the state of being rebutted; rebuttal
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- reddendum — a legal clause specifying what shall be given in return for the granting of a lease
- reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- remarqued — pertaining to a piece of print art that contains a remarque or original drawing by the artist in the margin
- remeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- remindful — reviving memory of something; reminiscent.
- remixture — a thing that has been mixed again