7-letter words containing m, u
- chumble — To peck at or nibble.
- chummed — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- cimabue — Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). ?1240–?1302, Italian painter of the Florentine school, who anticipated the movement, led by Giotto, away from the Byzantine tradition in art towards a greater naturalism
- circum- — around; surrounding; on all sides
- clam up — If someone clams up, they stop talking, often because they are shy or to avoid giving away secrets.
- clamour — If people are clamouring for something, they are demanding it in a noisy or angry way.
- clubman — a man who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubmen — Plural form of clubman.
- clumped — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clumper — a heavy shoe
- clurman — Harold (Edgar) 1901–80, U.S. theatrical director, author, and critic.
- clusium — ancient name of Chiusi.
- columba — as in Alpha Columbae. a small constellation in the S hemisphere south of Orion
- columel — the central column in a capsule
- columns — Plural form of column.
- combust — (of a star or planet) invisible for a period between 24 and 30 days each year due to its proximity to the sun
- come up — If someone comes up or comes up to you, they approach you until they are standing close to you.
- comique — a comic actor or singer
- commune — A commune is a group of people who live together and share everything.
- commute — If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work.
- compute — To compute a quantity or number means to calculate it.
- consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- costume — An actor's or performer's costume is the set of clothes they wear while they are performing.
- coueism — a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- coulomb — Charles Augustin de (ʃarl oɡystɛ̃ də). 1736–1806, French physicist: made many discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism
- cow gum — a colourless adhesive based on a natural rubber solution
- cozumel — an island off NE Quintana Roo state, on the Yucatán Peninsula, in SE Mexico: tourist resort.
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- crissum — the area or feathers surrounding the cloaca of a bird
- crumbed — Simple past tense and past participle of crumb.
- crumber — (Australian rules football) A player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each others efforts).
- crumble — If something crumbles, or if you crumble it, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
- crumbly — Something that is crumbly is easily broken into a lot of little pieces.
- crumbum — a foolish or despicable person
- crummie — a cow, espy one with crooked or crumpled horns
- crumped — Simple past tense and past participle of crump.
- crumpet — Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- crumply — easily crumpled
- cullman — a city in N Alabama.
- culming — a stem or stalk, especially the jointed and usually hollow stem of grasses.
- cultism — The system or practice of a cult.
- cum new — (of shares, etc) with rights to take up any scrip or rights issue
- cumaean — of Cumae
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cumbent — lying down; recumbent
- cumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumber.
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)