6-letter words containing u, m
- umfazi — an African married woman
- umlaut — a mark (¨) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, especially as so used in German. Compare dieresis.
- umpire — a person selected to rule on the plays in a game.
- umtali — former name of Mutare.
- umtata — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa on the Indian Ocean: granted independence in 1976 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 16,910 sq. mi. (43,798 sq. km). Capital: Umtata.
- umteen — innumerable; many.
- umwelt — the environmental factors, collectively, that are capable of affecting the behaviour of an animal or individual
- uncalm — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- unfirm — soft or unsteady
- unform — to make formless
- unhelm — to remove the helmet of (oneself or another)
- unlime — to remove the lime from (something, for example animal hides during the preparation process)
- unmade — not made.
- unmake — to cause to be as if never made; reduce to the original elements or condition; undo; destroy.
- unmask — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unmeek — not meek or submissive
- unmeet — not meet; not fitting, suitable, or proper; not becoming or seemly.
- unmesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- unmiry — not boggy, marshy, or dirty
- unmold — to take out of a mold: to unmold a gelatin dessert.
- unmoor — to loose (a vessel) from moorings or anchorage.
- unmown — (of grass, crops, etc) not cut with a hand implement or machine
- unseam — to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart: to unseam a dress.
- untame — changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear.
- unteam — to remove the yoke from (a team of animals)
- untomb — to exhume; to remove from a tomb; to disentomb (literally or figuratively)
- untrim — in poor condition; unfit; unsound
- up-sum — a summing-up
- upcome — the outcome or result
- upmake — to make up for (something lacking)
- upmost — uppermost.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- uremia — a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.
- uremic — pertaining to uremia.
- urumqi — an autonomous region in NW China, bordering Tibet, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Pakistan, and India: formerly a province. 635,830 sq. mi. (1,646,800 sq. km). Capital: Ürümqi.
- uthman — died 656 ad, third caliph of Islam, who established an authoritative version of the Koran
- utmost — of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, or the like; greatest: of the utmost importance.
- vacuum — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- valium — Valium is a drug given to people to calm their nerves when they are very depressed or upset.
- vallum — a Roman rampart or earthwork
- vellum — calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface.
- viscum — a member of a genus of parasitic shrubs, which includes the European mistletoe
- vitrum — (in prescriptions) glass.
- vmebus — A widely accepted backplane interconnection bus system developed by a consortium of companies led by Motorola, now standardised as IEEE 1014.
- volume — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- wammul — a dog
- wammus — wamus (def 2).
- wampum — Also called peag, seawan, sewan. cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, especially such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or dark-purple varieties.
- wampus — a strange or objectionable person; lout.
- warmup — an act or instance of warming up: The spectators came early to watch the players go through their warmups. The dancers went through a quick warmup.