8-letter words containing r, o, m, u
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- mouchoir — a handkerchief.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- mouldier — Comparative form of mouldy.
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mourners — Plural form of mourner.
- mournful — Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mouterer — a miller who receives payment for grinding corn
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muciform — Resembling mucus.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- mud room — a vestibule or other area in a house, in which wet and muddy clothes or footwear are removed.
- mudrooms — Plural form of mudroom.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- muricoid — (zoology) Resembling or relating to the genus Murex or family Muricidae.
- muriform — (of cells, spores, etc) having a regular arrangement, as bricks in a wall
- murksome — gloomy; dark
- mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- myoporum — any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- northumb — Northumberland
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- numerous — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- on drums — playing drums
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- outcharm — to exceed in charming
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outhomer — to score more home runs than
- outhumor — to exceed in humouring
- outmarch — to march faster or farther than.
- outremer — An area beyond the sea.
- outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- outtrump — to outplay or exceed in trumping