8-letter words containing u, m, i, a
- mao suit — an outfit worn in the People's Republic of China consisting of a Mao jacket and loose trousers.
- maquilas — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- marivaux — Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de [pyer kar-le duh shahn-blan duh] /pyɛr karˈlɛ də ʃɑ̃ˈblɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- masurium — technetium
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- maulmain — Moulmein.
- maximums — Plural form of maximum.
- miasmous — miasmal
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- mikasuki — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- minutial — having the nature of minutiae, or relating to minutiae
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- misgauge — To gauge (measure) incorrectly.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- mountain — heap of sth
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- mucoidal — Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoid.
- mufulira — a city in N central Zambia, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mujtahid — a person who has been certified as capable of interpreting religious law.
- mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- multicar — involving several cars
- multiday — lasting for more than one day
- muraenid — any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- muriatic — (not in scientific use) of or derived from muriatic acid.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- mushaira — A poetic symposium in Pakistan or North India at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- musicals — Plural form of musical.
- musician — a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
- mutating — to change; alter.
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mutative — to change; alter.
- mutazila — a member of a medieval theological sect (Mutazila) that maintained that nothing but eternity could be asserted regarding Allah, that the eternal nature of the Koran was questionable, and that humans have free will.