8-letter words containing m, u, n, t
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- muntjacs — Plural form of muntjac.
- muslinet — a thick type of muslin
- mustangs — Plural form of mustang.
- mutagens — Plural form of mutagen.
- mutandum — a thing which is to be changed
- mutating — to change; alter.
- 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.
- mutchkin — Scot. a unit of liquid measure equal to a little less than a U.S. liquid pint.
- muteness — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mutineer — a person who mutinies.
- mutinied — revolt or rebellion against constituted authority, especially by sailors against their officers.
- mutinies — Plural form of mutiny.
- mutinous — disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
- my aunt! — an exclamation of surprise or amazement
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- nembutal — pentobarbital sodium
- nembutsu — meditation on the name of Amida.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- 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.
- 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.
- nu-metal — a type of rock music popular from the late 1990s, featuring much of the sound typical of heavy metal but also influenced by rap and hip-hop
- numantia — an ancient city in N Spain: besieged and taken 134–133 b.c. by Scipio the Younger.
- numbnuts — a stupid or despicable person
- numerate — to represent numbers by symbols.
- nutmeats — the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- nutmeggy — having the smell or the taste of nutmeg
- outvenom — to surpass in venomousness
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- puntsman — a man in charge of a river punt
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- set menu — a complete meal in a restaurant or café for a stated price with a limited number of options to choose from for each course; it is usually cheaper than ordering dishes individually from the à la carte menu
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- stumping — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stuntman — a man who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).