8-letter words containing r, o, m, u
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorous — Archaic. moist; wet.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- jumprock — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Moxostoma, of the southeastern U.S.
- keurboom — (South Africa) A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for it's pretty lilac flowers.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- lemuroid — lemurlike; of the lemur kind.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- macroura — Macruran.
- malodour — Alternative spelling of malodor.
- man-hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manouver — Misspelling of maneuver.
- manouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- microbus — minibus.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- missouri — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- mob rule — the fact or state of large groups of people acting without the consent of the government, authorities, etc
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- mole run — any part of a system of underground tunnels, rooms, etc, prepared for use in the event of nuclear war
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- moorburn — the practice of burning off old growth on a heather moor to encourage new growth for grazing
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- moresque — Moorish.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- mortuary — funeral home.