6-letter words containing m, u
- muesli — a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- muffed — a thick, tubular case for the hands, covered with fur or other material, used by women and girls for warmth and as a handbag.
- muffin — an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan (muffin pan) containing a series of cuplike forms.
- muffle — to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
- muftis — Plural form of mufti.
- mug up — If you mug up a subject or mug up on it, you study it quickly, so that you can remember the main facts about it.
- mugabe — Robert (Gabriel) born 1924, Zimbabwean political leader: prime minister 1980–87; president since 1987.
- mugful — As much as a mug will contain.
- mugged — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- muggee — a person who is attacked by a mugger; the victim of a mugging.
- muggen — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Made of earthenware in contradistinction to china, metal, wood, etc.
- mugger — A person who attacks and robs another in a public place.
- muggle — A person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill.
- mughal — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- mugham — A folk musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation.
- mujiks — Plural form of mujik.
- mukden — a former name of Shenyang.
- mukluk — a soft boot worn by Eskimos, often lined with fur and usually made of sealskin or reindeer skin.
- muktar — Alt form mukhtar.
- muktuk — the blubber and skin of a whale when eaten as a food, raw or cooked.
- mulchy — Resembling or characteristic of mulch.
- mulcts — Plural form of mulct.
- muleta — a red cloth similar to but smaller than a capa and manipulated by a stick set into one of the three holes in or near the center, for use by a matador in guiding the course of the bull's attack in the stage of the fight preparatory to the kill.
- muleys — Plural form of muley.
- mulgas — Plural form of mulga.
- mulier — a legitimate child.
- mulish — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- mullah — (in Islamic countries) a title of respect for a person who is learned in, teaches, or expounds the sacred law.
- mullar — A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
- mullas — (in Islamic countries) a title of respect for a person who is learned in, teaches, or expounds the sacred law.
- mulled — to study or ruminate; ponder.
- mullen — any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
- muller — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- mullet — any of several marine or freshwater, usually gray fishes of the family Mugilidae, having a nearly cylindrical body.
- mulley — muley
- mullis — Kary Banks [kair-ee,, kar-ee] /ˈkɛər i,, ˈkær i/ (Show IPA), born 1944, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1993.
- mulmul — a type of thin, soft, fine muslin, esp that woven in India
- multan — a city in E central Pakistan.
- multi- — Multi- is used to form adjectives indicating that something consists of many things of a particular kind.
- multic — (language) A data-parallel version of C from Wavetracer.
- multum — An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
- mumath — (mathematics, tool) A symbolic mathematics package for the IBM PC, written in MuSimp.
- mumbai — a state in W central India. 118,800 sq. mi. (307,690 sq. km). Capital: Mumbai.
- mumble — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- mumbly — Prone to mumbling.
- mummed — Simple past tense and past participle of mum.
- mummer — a person who wears a mask or fantastic costume while merrymaking or taking part in a pantomime, especially at Christmas and other festive seasons.
- mumped — Simple past tense and past participle of mump.
- mumper — (British, or, obsolete) A beggar.
- munchy — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.