8-letter words containing m, u, t, a, i
- multicar — involving several cars
- multiday — lasting for more than one day
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- muriatic — (not in scientific use) of or derived from muriatic acid.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- 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.
- mutative — to change; alter.
- mutazila — a member of a medieval theological sect (Mutazila) that maintained that nothing but eternity could be asserted regarding Allah, that the eternal nature of the Koran was questionable, and that humans have free will.
- mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- 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.
- numantia — an ancient city in N Spain: besieged and taken 134–133 b.c. by Scipio the Younger.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- patagium — a wing membrane, as of a bat.
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- 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.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- 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.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
- temirtau — a city in E central Kazakhstan, NW of Karaganda.
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- tiramisu — an Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
- titanium — a dark-gray or silvery, lustrous, very hard, light, corrosion-resistant, metallic element, occurring combined in various minerals: used in metallurgy to remove oxygen and nitrogen from steel and to toughen it. Symbol: Ti; atomic weight: 47.90; atomic number: 22; specific gravity: 4.5 at 20°C.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tsushima — two adjacent Japanese islands between Korea and Kyushu: Russian fleet defeated by Japanese fleet 1905. 271 sq. mi. (702 sq. km).
- ultimacy — the state or quality of being ultimate.
- ultimata — a final, uncompromising demand or set of terms issued by a party to a dispute, the rejection of which may lead to a severance of relations or to the use of force.
- ultimate — last; furthest or farthest; ending a process or series: the ultimate point in a journey; the ultimate style in hats.
- ultraism — extremism.
- umangite — a copper selenide mineral, Cu3Se2, having a dark blue or red colour and metallic lustre
- umbratic — of or relating to the shade or shadows
- urheimat — the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.
- viaticum — Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.