9-letter words containing m, u, o
- automaker — An automaker is a company that manufactures cars.
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- automatic — An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.
- automaton — If you say that someone is an automaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
- autometer — a small device inserted in a photocopier to enable the process of copying to begin and to record the number of copies made
- automized — Simple past tense and past participle of automize.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- autosomal — any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autotimer — a device for turning a system on and off automatically at times predetermined by advance setting
- auxometer — an instrument measuring the magnifying power of lenses
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blue comb — a disease of birds resembling Bright's disease in humans affecting especially domestic fowl, characterized by fever, sunken eyes, and shriveling of the skin of the wattles, shanks, and comb.
- blue mold — any of various species of a fungus (genus Penicillium) that produce bluish masses of spores: some species yield penicillin and some are used to ripen certain cheeses
- blue moon — If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
- bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
- bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
- boom-bust — relating to a supposed cycle in which periods of prosperity and growth alternate with periods of recession
- bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
- botulinum — an anaerobic botulin-secreting bacterium, Clostridium botulinum
- bromatium — any of the swollen hyphal tips of certain fungi, on which ants can feed.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- bumbledom — self-importance in a minor office
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumpology — phrenology
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- buzz bomb — a robot bomb, esp. as used against England by Germany in WWII
- calembour — a pun
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- catamount — any of various medium-sized felines, such as the puma or lynx
- caudiform — (zoology) Resembling a tail.
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.