9-letter words containing u, m, e, a
- nymphaeum — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outmanage — (transitive) To surpass in management; to manage better than.
- outmanned — Simple past tense and past participle of outman.
- outmantle — to be better dressed than
- outmaster — to surpass
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permutate — to cause (something) to undergo permutation.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
- pneumonia — inflammation of the lungs with congestion.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- quaesitum — something that is sought; the solution to a problem
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- qualmless — having no qualms
- quamashes — Plural form of quamash.
- quarrymen — Plural form of quarryman.
- queen mab — Irish and English Folklore. a mischievous, tantalizing fairy who governs and produces people's dreams.
- quelimane — a seaport in E Mozambique.
- quickbeam — a rowan tree
- rasmussen — Knud Johan Victor [knooth yoo-hahn veek-tawr] /knuð yʊˈhɑn ˈvik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- remarqued — pertaining to a piece of print art that contains a remarque or original drawing by the artist in the margin
- remeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- remoulade — a cold sauce made with mayonnaise and various condiments and herbs, as chopped pickles, capers, mustard, parsley, chervil, and tarragon.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- ruddleman — a person who deals in ruddle.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- samuelson — Paul A(nthony) 1915–2009, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1970.
- sarmentum — a slender running stem; runner.
- sarum use — the liturgy or modified form of the Roman rite used in Salisbury before the Reformation and revived in part by some English churches.