9-letter words containing u, m, e, a
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- commutate — to reverse the direction of (an electric current)
- consumate — Misspelling of consummate.
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- cream jug — a small jug for serving cream
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- 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.
- cum laude — If a college student graduates cum laude, they receive the third highest honor that is possible. The second-highest grade is known as magna cum laude, and the highest grade of all is known as summa cum laude.
- cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
- cumulated — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cumulate.
- cusimanse — A small mongoose, of genus Crossarchus, native to West Africa.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- deaf-mute — A deaf-mute is someone who cannot hear or speak. This word could cause offence.
- demagogue — If you say that someone such as a politician is a demagogue you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
- denotatum — (linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- dismutase — (enzyme) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- dumaguete — a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.
- dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- eadmund i — Edmund I.
- edematous — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- edumacate — (humorous) deliberate misspelling of educate.
- el faiyûm — a city in N Egypt: a site of towns going back at least to the 12th dynasty. Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- elmaguide — (language) The metalanguage used for interpretation of user actions in the ELMA compiler writer developed at Tallinn Poly Institute in 1978.
- emaculate — (obsolete) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
- embrasure — (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
- embrazure — Alternative form of embrasure.
- empyreuma — the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter