8-letter words containing u, m
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kumquats — Plural form of kumquat.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- laminous — laminate; laminose.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- laudanum — a tincture of opium.
- lemessus — ancient name of Limassol.
- lemuroid — lemurlike; of the lemur kind.
- leucemia — leukemia.
- leucemic — leukemic
- leukemia — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemic — any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.
- leukemid — any cutaneous lesion that occurs in leukemia.
- leukomas — Plural form of leukoma.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- limequat — a hybrid citrus tree produced by crossing the lime and the kumquat.
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- limuloid — of, relating to, or resembling the king crab genus Limulus
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- lixivium — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberer — A person engaged in the lumber trade, especially a lumberjack.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- luminant — That illuminates; luminous.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- luminism — a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lutetium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- luxmeter — a device for measuring the brightness or illumination of a surface
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.