8-letter words containing s, u, m
- mandamus — a writ from a superior court to an inferior court or to an officer, corporation, etc., commanding that a specified thing be done.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manhunts — Plural form of manhunt.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- manjusri — a Bodhisattva personifying wisdom.
- mansuete — gentle or tame
- manumits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manumit.
- manutius — Aldus [awl-duh s,, al-] /ˈɔl dəs,, ˈæl-/ (Show IPA), (Teobaldo Mannucci or Manuzio) 1450–1515, Italian printer and classical scholar.
- mao suit — an outfit worn in the People's Republic of China consisting of a Mao jacket and loose trousers.
- maquilas — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marasmus — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- marquees — Plural form of marquee.
- marquesa — A Spanish marchioness.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- masquers — Plural form of masquer.
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- masseurs — Plural form of masseur.
- masseuse — A female masseur.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- masurium — technetium
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- maturers — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturest — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maudslay — Henry, 1771–1831, English mechanical engineer.
- maximums — Plural form of maximum.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatuses — Plural form of meatus.
- medusoid — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- 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
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.