8-letter words containing n, u, m, s
- houseman — a male servant who performs general duties in a home, hotel, etc.
- housemen — Plural form of houseman.
- humanics — the study of the nature or affairs of humankind.
- humanise — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanism — any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
- humanist — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- huntsman — the member of a hunt staff who manages the hounds during the hunt.
- huntsmen — Plural form of huntsman.
- hutments — Plural form of hutment.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- immunise — to make immune.
- impounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impound.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- indusium — Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns.
- infamous — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- insuloma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- luminism — a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- macmanus — Seumas [shey-muh s] /ˈʃeɪ məs/ (Show IPA), 1869–1960, Irish poet and short-story writer.
- mandamus — a writ from a superior court to an inferior court or to an officer, corporation, etc., commanding that a specified thing be done.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manhunts — Plural form of manhunt.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- manjusri — a Bodhisattva personifying wisdom.
- mansuete — gentle or tame
- manumits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manumit.
- manutius — Aldus [awl-duh s,, al-] /ˈɔl dəs,, ˈæl-/ (Show IPA), (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio) 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- minimums — Plural form of minimum.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- minuends — Plural form of minuend.
- minutest — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- misusing — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- moondust — The fine regolith found on the surface of the Moon.