8-letter words containing t, i, u
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- lutetium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lutherie — The craft of making stringed musical instruments.
- luthiers — Plural form of luthier.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- luxurist — a lover of luxury
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- mail out — If someone mails out things such as letters, leaflets, or bills, they send them to a large number of people at the same time.
- mail-out — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- manitous — Plural form of manitou.
- 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.
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- mellitum — mellite.
- 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.
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- miguelet — miquelet.
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- minutest — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- minutial — having the nature of minutiae, or relating to minutiae
- minuting — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- miquelet — (in the Peninsular War) a Spanish guerrilla who fought against the French.
- mirthful — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misbuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
- misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- miss out — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- mistouch — To touch inappropriately, wrongly or by mistake.
- mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
- mistruth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- mittimus — a warrant of commitment to prison.
- mixtures — Plural form of mixture.
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- mosquito — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- moulinet — a portable pulley device for bending crossbow or turning the drum of a crane
- moulting — Present participle of moult.