6-letter words containing m, u, s, i
- musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- musive — relating to or forming a mosaic
- musjid — masjid.
- muskie — Edmund (Sixtus) [sik-stuh s] /ˈsɪk stəs/ (Show IPA), 1914–96, U.S. politician: senator 1959–80; secretary of state 1980–81.
- muslim — of or relating to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam.
- muslin — a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- mutism — an inability to speak, due to a physical defect, conscious refusal, or psychogenic inhibition.
- mxibus — Multisystem eXtention Interface Bus
- nimbus — Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- nudism — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- opiums — Plural form of opium.
- osmium — a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
- ostium — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- rimous — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- siglum — an abbreviation used by scribes writing in ancient and medieval Latin
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- sodium — Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- squirm — to wriggle or writhe.
- submit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- sufism — the ascetic and mystical system of the Sufis.
- sumi-e — (in fine arts) a monochrome painting executed in ink: Zen painters were masters of sumi-e.
- summit — a city in NE New Jersey.
- sumpit — in Malaysia, a long wooden blowpipe, from which poison-tipped or barbed darts are blown, used primarily for hunting
- surimi — a paste of inexpensive fish shaped, colored, and flavored in imitation of lobster meat, crabmeat, etc.
- truism — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- viscum — a member of a genus of parasitic shrubs, which includes the European mistletoe