9-letter words containing m, u, r, a, i
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- micturate — to pass urine; urinate.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- mithraeum — a temple of Mithras.
- mournival — a card game whose object is to gain a set of four aces, kings, queens, or knaves in one hand
- mugearite — an igneous rock containing oligoclase, olivine, orthoclase, and apatite
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- mullingar — a town in N central Republic of Ireland, the county town of Co Westmeath; site of cathedral; cattle raised. Pop: 15 621 (2002)
- multigram — Of more than one gram.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- mutilator — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- neurinoma — A schwannoma.
- numeraire — a basic standard by which values are measured, as gold in the monetary system.
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- ritualism — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- rituximab — a monoclonal antibody used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- roumanian — Romania.
- ruminator — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rummaging — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- saturnism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- semilunar — shaped like a half-moon; crescent.
- semirural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.