9-letter words containing m, u, c
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- 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.
- 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).
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- 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
- 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
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mccullers — Carson [kahr-suh n] /ˈkɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1917–1967, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meet cute — to meet for the first time, often in a contrived or unusual way
- meet-cute — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melaleuca — any of various chiefly Australian shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Melaleuca, of the myrtle family, including the cajeput and several species of bottlebrush.
- 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.
- 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.