8-letter words containing u, m
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mcguffin — an object or event in a book or a film that serves as the impetus for the plot
- mcteague — a novel (1899) by Frank Norris.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatuses — Plural form of meatus.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- medullae — Irregular plural form of medulla.
- medullar — Medullary.
- medusoid — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- mellitum — mellite.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- merengue — a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin, characterized by a stiff-legged, limping step.
- meringue — merengue.
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- mete out — inflict: punishment
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- mezereum — a shrub, Daphne mezereum, native to Eurasia, having clusters of fragrant purplish flowers.
- mezuzahs — Plural form of mezuzah.
- mezuzoth — Plural form of mezuzah.
- miasmous — miasmal
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- microbus — minibus.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux