8-letter words containing r, o, m
- motorise — Alternative spelling of motorize.
- motorist — a person who drives or travels in a privately owned automobile.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- motorize — to furnish with a motor, as a vehicle.
- motorman — a person who operates or drives an electrically operated vehicle, as a streetcar or subway train.
- motormen — Plural form of motorman.
- motorola — Motorola, Inc.
- motorway — an expressway.
- 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
- mr. cool — a person who is ideally or excessively self-possessed, poised, or reserved (sometimes used with Miss, Ms., or Mrs. instead of Mr. when referring to a female).
- 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)
- my word! — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- 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.
- myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
- myrmeco- — ant
- myrmidon — Classical Mythology. one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.
- namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
- natiform — resembling the buttocks; buttock-shaped
- naviform — Shaped like a boat.
- negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
- nemorous — (rare) Forested; full of trees, dark with shady groves.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.