8-letter words containing m, u, t, a, o
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- modulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mountant — an adhesive used for mounting pictures
- mousemat — a piece of material on which a computer mouse is moved
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- 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.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- notandum — (chiefly, in the plural) Something to be noted or observed; a notable fact.
- ommateum — compound eye.
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- outmatch — to be superior to; surpass; outdo: The home team seems to have been completely outmatched by the visitors.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- putumayo — a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- 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.
- solatium — something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- stamboul — Istanbul
- tamboura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- tautomer — a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- tautonym — a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- tupamaro — any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
- turcoman — Turkoman.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- warmouth — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis gulosus, of the eastern U.S., having a patch of small teeth on its tongue.
- yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.