9-letter words containing m, o, u, r
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- humourful — Humorous; comical.
- humouring — humor.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- humourous — (chiefly, UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorous.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- iminourea — guanidine.
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- impromptu — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- irrumatio — Alternative form of irrumation.
- isomerous — having an equal number of parts, markings, etc.
- jormunrek — king of the Goths, murderer of Svanhild, the daughter of Sigurd: killed by the Gjukungs; probably identical with Ermanaric (4th century a.d.), the Ostrogothic leader.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- junk room — a room in a house that is used as a store room
- junkerdom — the Junkers as a group.
- jury room — a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- karakorum — a ruined city in central Mongolian People's Republic: capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- krummholz — a forest of stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
- krummhorn — A medieval wind instrument with an enclosed double reed and an upward-curving end, producing an even, nasal sound.
- kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
- manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.