6-letter words containing o, s, m, u
- mucous — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling mucus.
- mucros — Plural form of mucro.
- muskox — a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, of arctic regions of North America and Greenland, that is between an ox and a sheep in size and anatomy.
- musmon — A kind of sheep, the mouflon.
- musrol — the noseband of a horse's bridle
- omasum — the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum; the manyplies.
- ombuds — Plural form of ombud.
- opiums — Plural form of opium.
- osmium — a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
- osmous — of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
- osmund — a superior quality of iron, formerly used for fishhooks, arrowheads, etc.
- ostium — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
- outsum — to amount or add up to more than
- possum — opossum.
- ramous — ramose.
- rimous — full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.
- scumos — (abuse, operating system) /skuhm'os/ or /skuhm'O-S/ An Unflattering hackerism for SunOS, the Unix variant once supported on Sun Microsystems's Unix workstations. Despite what this term might suggest, Sun was founded by hackers and still enjoys excellent relations with hackerdom; usage is more often in exasperation than outright loathing. See also sun-stools. Compare AIDX, Macintrash, Nominal Semidestructor, Open DeathTrap, HP-SUX.
- slocum — Joshua, 1844–c1910, U.S. mariner, author, and lecturer, born in Nova Scotia.
- smouch — to kiss
- smouse — to feast on or consume
- sodium — Chemistry. a soft, silver-white, metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in moist air, occurring in nature only in the combined state, and used in the synthesis of sodium peroxide, sodium cyanide, and tetraethyllead: a necessary element in the body for the maintenance of normal fluid balance and other physiological functions. Symbol: Na; atomic weight: 22.9898; atomic number: 11; specific gravity: 0.97 at 20°C.
- somnus — the ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.
- summon — to call upon to do something specified.
- ugsome — horrid; loathsome.
- upmost — uppermost.
- utmost — of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, or the like; greatest: of the utmost importance.