8-letter words containing u, a, m
- aumildar — a manager or agent.
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autoloom — (India) A type of power loom.
- automata — automaton
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- automath — One who is self-taught; an autodidact.
- automats — Plural form of automat.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotomy — the casting off by an animal of a part of its body, to facilitate escape when attacked
- autumnal — Autumnal means having features that are characteristic of autumn.
- azimuths — Plural form of azimuth.
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- belamour — a beloved person
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- boulimia — bulimia.
- 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
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- 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
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.