9-letter words containing r, a, m, u, s
- glamorous — full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- gourmands — Plural form of gourmand.
- guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marauders — Plural form of marauder.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marquesan — a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- mauritius — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- measurers — Plural form of measurer.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.