9-letter words containing r, a, m, u
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- mud crack — a fracture, part of a desiccation pattern, caused by the drying out and shrinking of silt or clay.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mugearite — an igneous rock containing oligoclase, olivine, orthoclase, and apatite
- mule-ears — any of several composite plants of the genus Wyethia, of the western U.S., having large leaves and broad flower heads with yellow rays.
- muliebral — womanly nature or qualities.
- mullarkey — Alternative form of malarkey.
- mullingar — a town in N central Republic of Ireland, the county town of Co Westmeath; site of cathedral; cattle raised. Pop: 15 621 (2002)
- multigram — Of more than one gram.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multiyear — Having a duration of multiple years.
- muralists — Plural form of muralist.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- musharraf — Pervez (ˈpɛrveɪz). born 1943, Pakistani general and politician; became military leader of Pakistan following a coup in 2001; president (2001–08)
- must-read — a piece of literature or writing considered important or classic; writing that should or must be read.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutilator — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- neurinoma — A schwannoma.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- nonmature — not mature; immature
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- numeraire — a basic standard by which values are measured, as gold in the monetary system.
- numerally — According to number; in number; numerically.
- numerated — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- numerator — Arithmetic. the term of a fraction, usually above the line, that indicates the number of equal parts that are to be added together; the dividend placed over a divisor: The numerator of the fraction 2/3 is 2. Compare denominator (def 1).
- numerical — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- nummulary — relating to coinage or money
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- ossuarium — ossuary.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsmarts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsmart.
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.