8-letter words containing r, o, m, u
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overmuch — If something happens overmuch, it happens too much or very much.
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- premould — to mould in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- promulge — to promulgate.
- pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proprium — a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; attribute.
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- pulmotor — an apparatus for pumping oxygen into the lungs during artificial respiration
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- queerdom — the state of being a homosexual
- racemous — racemose.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- resummon — to summon again
- rimouski — a city in SE Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- rio muni — the mainland province of Equatorial Guinea on the Guinea coast: formerly the mainland portion of Spanish Guinea. 10,040 sq. mi. (26,003 sq. km).
- rombauer — Irma von Starkloff [stahrk-lawf,, ‐lof] /ˈstɑrk lɔf,, ‐lɒf/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, U.S. cooking expert and cookbook writer.
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- roumania — Romania.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- rumorous — relating to or containing rumours
- rumoured — If something is rumoured to be the case, people are suggesting that it is the case, but they do not know for certain.
- rumourer — a person who is given to spreading rumours
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- scrumpox — a skin infection caused by the herpes virus which is spread among players in a scrum
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smouldry — smouldering
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- sombrous — somber.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sour gum — a cornaceous tree, Nyssa sylvatica, of the eastern US, having glossy leaves, soft wood, and sour purplish fruits
- spermous — of the nature of or pertaining to sperm.
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- strumose — having a struma or strumae.
- strumous — strumose.
- summoner — to call upon to do something specified.
- supermom — a mother who successfully manages a household and cares for her children while holding a job or being active in her community.
- surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- tamboura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- tautomer — a compound that exhibits tautomerism.