7-letter words containing m, u
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- budworm — a larval pest that feeds on buds and leaves
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum boy — a person who assumes the passive role in anal intercourse
- bum out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bum-out — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumbler — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumfuck — a remote or insignificant place
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bummock — a submerged mass of ice projecting downwards
- bump up — If you bump up an amount, you increase it suddenly, usually by a lot.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bumpoff — murder.
- bumster — (of trousers) cut low so as to reveal the top part of the buttocks
- burmese — Burmese means belonging or relating to Burma, or to its people, language, or culture. Burma is now known as Myanmar.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- bushmen — a woodsman.
- by gum! — by God!
- cacumen — an apex
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- camaieu — a cameo
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- campout — a camping trip
- castrum — (historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.
- caulome — the stem structure of a plant considered as a whole
- cenaeum — (in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- centrum — the main part or body of a vertebra
- cerumen — the soft brownish-yellow wax secreted by glands in the auditory canal of the external ear
- chaumer — the living quarters used by farm workers
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chillum — a short pipe, usually of clay, used esp for smoking cannabis
- chumash — a printed book containing one of the Five Books of Moses