11-letter words containing n, u, m
- bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
- buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
- bungee jump — a jump made by someone from a high bridge, building, etc, secured only by a rubber cord attached to the ankles
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- businessmen — a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
- center jump — a jump ball between the centers of the opposing teams, held in the circle at the center of the court, as at the beginning of each period.
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- circumcinct — Past participle of circumcinge.
- circumlunar — around or revolving around the moon
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coati-mundi — coati
- code number — a number used to identify something
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- columnistic — belonging or relating to a columnist
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comment out — (programming) To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
- comminuting — Present participle of comminute.
- comminution — The action of reducing a material, an ore, to minute particles or fragments.
- common gull — a type of gull, Larus canus
- common noun — A common noun is a noun such as 'tree', 'water', or 'beauty' that is not the name of one particular person or thing. Compare proper noun.