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9-letter words containing m, u, i, r

  • impromptu — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
  • imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
  • impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
  • indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
  • intermure — to wall in
  • inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
  • inurement — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
  • inurnment — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
  • ip number — internet address
  • irrumatio — Alternative form of irrumation.
  • isomerous — having an equal number of parts, markings, etc.
  • jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
  • junkerism — the spirit or policy of the Junkers.
  • kauri gum — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
  • labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
  • lemuralia — the annual festival in ancient Rome in which the lemures were exorcised from houses.
  • ligustrum — any of various shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ligustrum, of the olive family, comprising the privets.
  • limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
  • limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
  • liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
  • lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
  • 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
  • luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
  • luminaria — (especially in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a Christmas lantern consisting of a lighted candle set in sand inside a paper bag.
  • 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.
  • maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
  • maiduguri — a city in NE Nigeria.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
  • manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
  • manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
  • māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
  • maquisard — maquis (def 2).
  • marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
  • margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
  • marihuana — hemp (def 1).
  • marijuana — hemp (def 1).
  • marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
  • marquises — Plural form of marquis.
  • marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
  • marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
  • marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
  • marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
  • martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
  • martyrium — a place where the relics of a martyr are kept.
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