7-letter words containing m, u
- anticum — pronaos.
- arcanum — a profound secret or mystery known only to initiates
- armfuls — Plural form of armful.
- armours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armour.
- armoury — A country's armoury is all the weapons and military equipment that it has.
- aruwimi — a river in NE Democratic Republic of Congo, rising near Lake Albert as the Ituri and flowing west into the River Congo. Length: about 1288 km (800 miles)
- as much — You use as much in expressions such as 'I thought as much' and 'I guessed as much' after you have just been told something and you want to say that you already believed or expected it to be true.
- asculum — an ancient town in Apulia, SE Italy: Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 279 B.C.
- assumed — false; fictitious
- assumer — One who assumes.
- assumes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assume.
- assumpt — (obsolete) That which is assumed; an assumption.
- asylums — Plural form of asylum.
- atriums — Plural form of atrium.
- augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
- ausform — to temper or deform steel in order to make it stronger and more durable
- automan — someone who manufactures motor cars
- automat — a machine that automatically dispenses goods, such as cigarettes, when money is inserted
- autonym — a piece of literature published under the real name of an author
- autumns — Plural form of autumn.
- autumny — characteristic of autumn
- azimuth — the angular distance usually measured clockwise from the north point of the horizon to the intersection with the horizon of the vertical circle passing through a celestial body
- azymous — unleavened
- babudom — the rule of babus
- baculum — a bony support in the penis of certain mammals, esp the carnivores
- bakhmut — former name of Artemovsk.
- ballium — bailey.
- balmung — (in the Nibelungenlied) Siegfried's sword
- bay rum — an aromatic liquid, used in medicines and cosmetics, originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree (Pimenta racemosa) with rum: now also synthesized from alcohol, water, and various oils
- bee gum — a hollow gum tree or log used as a hive by bees
- belgaum — a city in India, in Karnataka: cotton, furniture, leather. Pop: 399 600 (2001)
- belgium — a federal kingdom in NW Europe: at various times under the rulers of Burgundy, Spain, Austria, France, and the Netherlands before becoming an independent kingdom in 1830. It formed the Benelux customs union with the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1948 and was a founder member of the Common Market, now the European Union. It consists chiefly of a low-lying region of sand, woods, and heath (the Campine) in the north and west, and a fertile undulating central plain rising to the Ardennes Mountains in the southeast. Languages: French, Flemish (Dutch), German. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: euro. Capital: Brussels. Pop: 10 444 268 (2013 est). Area: 30 513 sq km (11 778 sq miles)
- bemouth — to praise a person dramatically
- bemused — If you are bemused, you are puzzled or confused.
- bermuda — a UK Overseas Territory consisting of a group of over 150 coral islands (the Bermudas) in the NW Atlantic: discovered in about 1503, colonized by the British by 1612, although not acquired by the British crown until 1684. Capital: Hamilton. Pop: 69 467 (2013 est). Area: 53 sq km (20 sq miles)
- bethumb — to cause wear to (books) by handling
- bethump — to thump hard
- bismuth — a brittle pinkish-white crystalline metallic element having low thermal and electrical conductivity, which expands on cooling. It is widely used in alloys, esp low-melting alloys in fire safety devices; its compounds are used in medicines. Symbol: Bi; atomic no: 83; atomic wt: 208.98037; valency: 3 or 5; relative density: 9.747; melting pt: 271.4°C; boiling pt: 1564±5°C
- bitumed — covered with bitumen
- bitumen — Bitumen is a black sticky substance which is obtained from tar or petrol and is used in making roads.
- blellum — a babbler
- bohrium — a transuranic element artificially produced in minute quantities by bombarding 204Bi atoms with 54Cr nuclei. Symbol: Bh; atomic no: 107
- bombous — convex; spherical.
- borglum — (John) Gutzon (ˈɡʌtsən). 1867–1941, US sculptor, noted for his monumental busts of US presidents carved in the mountainside of Mount Rushmore
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- brummie — Brummie means belonging to or coming from Birmingham in England.
- brumous — mist; fog.
- brutism — the characteristic actions of a brute
- bruxism — the habit of grinding the teeth, esp unconsciously
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.