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9-letter words containing t, n, u, m

  • contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
  • contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
  • corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
  • cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
  • costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
  • cromulent — (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
  • ctenidium — one of the comblike respiratory gills of molluscs
  • culminant — highest or culminating
  • culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
  • decumbent — lying down or lying flat
  • demounted — Simple past tense and past participle of demount.
  • demulcent — soothing; mollifying
  • denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
  • dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
  • denturism — the practice by denturists of making artificial dentures and fitting them to patients.
  • dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
  • dismounts — Plural form of dismount.
  • documents — Plural form of document.
  • drum into — instill by repetition
  • dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
  • ecumenist — ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement.
  • educement — the action of educing
  • emolument — A salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.
  • emulating — Present participle of emulate.
  • emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
  • emunction — The act of blowing one's nose.
  • emunctory — Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
  • endosteum — (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone.
  • enduement — Enduing.
  • enumerate — Mention (a number of things ) one by one.
  • equipment — The necessary items for a particular purpose.
  • exonumist — a collector of exonumia
  • farm-toun — a farmhouse together with its outbuildings
  • fulminant — occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity; fulminating.
  • fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
  • fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
  • fundament — the buttocks.
  • furniment — the state or quality of being furnished
  • glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
  • gum plant — gumweed.
  • gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
  • gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
  • gunsmiths — Plural form of gunsmith.
  • hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • hauptmann — Gerhart [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.
  • home unit — a self-contained residence which is part of a series of similar residences
  • humanists — Plural form of humanist.
  • humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
  • humiliant — humiliating, humbling
  • huntsmans — (Australia) Plural form of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
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