8-letter words containing u, a, m
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- campus's — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canticum — a canticle
- capsicum — Capsicums are peppers.
- cetaceum — spermaceti.
- charmful — highly charming or enchanting
- chaumont — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- chetumal — city in SE Mexico: capital of Quintana Roo state: pop. 38,000
- chiasmus — reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- clamours — Plural form of clamour.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- coagulum — any coagulated mass; clot; curd
- coassume — to assume jointly
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columnal — of, like, or relating to a column
- columnar — shaped like a column.
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- commaund — Obsolete form of command.
- communal — Communal means relating to particular groups in a country or society.
- conarium — the pineal gland
- corallum — the skeleton of any zoophyte, esp that of a coral colony
- costumal — Pertaining to costume or dress.
- coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
- 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
- crotalum — a type of castanet, often used in religious dances in ancient Greece
- crumenal — a purse
- cumacean — any small malacostracan marine crustacean of the Cumacea family, mostly dwelling on the sea bed but sometimes found among the plankton
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- cumstain — Lb vulgar A stain from ejaculate.
- cumulant — (mathematics) Any of a set of parameters of a one-dimensional probability distribution of a certain form.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- custumal — a customary.
- cyathium — a form of inflorescence of the type found on the poinsettia
- cymatium — the top moulding of a classical cornice or entablature
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- damascus — the capital of Syria, in the southwest: reputedly the oldest city in the world, having been inhabited continuously since before 2000 bc. Pop: 2 317 000 (2005 est)
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- domatium — a plant cavity inhabited by commensal insects or mites or, occasionally, microorganisms
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.