8-letter words containing u, m
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humified — transformed into humus.
- humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- hummocks — Plural form of hummock.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorous — Archaic. moist; wet.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hump day — Wednesday
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- humpless — having no hump
- humstrum — a musical instrument that is of crude construction or out of tune
- huntsman — the member of a hunt staff who manages the hounds during the hunt.
- huntsmen — Plural form of huntsman.
- hutments — Plural form of hutment.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymettus — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- illicium — (ichthyology) The modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.
- illinium — promethium. Symbol: Il.
- illumine — Light up ; brighten.
- illuvium — the material accumulated through illuviation.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- immanuel — the name of the Messiah as prophesied by Isaiah, often represented in Christian exegesis as being Jesus Christ. Isa. 7:14.
- immature — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- imminute — reduced
- immunise — to make immune.
- immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- immunize — to make immune.
- immuring — Present participle of immure.
- imperium — command; supreme power.
- implunge — to submerge
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impound.
- impudent — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- impugned — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- impulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of impulse.
- impulses — Plural form of impulse.