8-letter words containing m, o, u, n
- mounting — A backing, setting, or support for something.
- mourners — Plural form of mourner.
- mournful — Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mousekin — a little mouse
- mousings — Plural form of mousing.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- mu meson — (no longer in technical use) muon.
- mucinoid — any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- mucinous — Of, pertaining to or containing mucin.
- mudstone — a clayey rock with the texture and composition of shale but little or no lamination.
- muishond — A species of weasel found in southern Africa, Poecilogale albinucha.
- mullions — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- multiton — Weighing more than one ton.
- mundungo — (in Spain) tripe
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- muskoxen — Plural form of muskox.
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutinous — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nonhuman — not human.
- nonmusic — any sound that does not constitute music; unpleasant noise
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- northumb — Northumberland
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- not much — very little
- notandum — (chiefly, in the plural) Something to be noted or observed; a notable fact.
- noumenal — ontic.
- noumenon — the object, itself inaccessible to experience, to which a phenomenon is referred for the basis or cause of its sense content.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- numerous — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- numinous — of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural.
- nuoc mam — a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- omadhaun — a foolish man or boy
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- on drums — playing drums
- oncidium — any of numerous tropical American orchids of the genus Oncidium, having clusters of flowers showing great variety in size, form, and color.
- onychium — a small fern plant of Old World tropics and subtropics
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.