9-letter words containing m, u, c, r
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- eurythmic — (music) harmonious.
- excerptum — (from Latin) an excerpt
- firmicute — Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- gumsucker — a native-born Australian
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- homecourt — (basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
- humbucker — (music) A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series - to
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- 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
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- mccullers — Carson [kahr-suh n] /ˈkɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1917–1967, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.