8-letter words containing r, u, m
- bomb run — the part of a bombing mission between the sighting of the target or its identification by electronic instruments and the release of the bombs.
- boomburb — a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- cameroun — Cameroon
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- charmful — highly charming or enchanting
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chromium — Chromium is a hard, shiny metallic element, used to make steel alloys and to coat other metals.
- chromous — of or containing chromium in the divalent state
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- clamours — Plural form of clamour.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- communer — a person who participates in the Eucharist
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- conarium — the pineal gland
- consumer — A consumer is a person who buys things or uses services.
- corallum — the skeleton of any zoophyte, esp that of a coral colony
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores
- coromuel — a cooling westerly breeze that flows in from the Pacific over the La Paz region of the southern Baja California peninsula of Mexico.
- coronium — a hypothetical element whose existence was proposed in the 19th century to explain a green line seen in the solar coronal spectrum; this is now known to be highly-ionized iron and nickel
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- coumarin — a white vanilla-scented crystalline ester, used in perfumes and flavourings and as an anticoagulant. Formula: C9H6O2
- coumarou — a tall leguminous tree, Coumarouna odorata, of tropical America
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crotalum — a type of castanet, often used in religious dances in ancient Greece
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.