8-letter words containing u, m
- atheneum — (initial capital letter) a sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars.
- audhumla — a cow, owned by Ymir and born like him from drops of the melting primeval ice: its licking of a mass of salty ice exposed the first god, Buri.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- aumildar — a manager or agent.
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autoloom — (India) A type of power loom.
- automata — automaton
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- automath — One who is self-taught; an autodidact.
- automats — Plural form of automat.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotomy — the casting off by an animal of a part of its body, to facilitate escape when attacked
- autumnal — Autumnal means having features that are characteristic of autumn.
- azimuths — Plural form of azimuth.
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- bdellium — any of several African or W Asian trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora that yield a gum resin
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- beer mug — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with a handle, to drink beer from
- begummed — to smear, soil, clog, etc., with or as if with gum or a gummy substance.
- bejumble — to jumble up
- belamour — a beloved person
- bemuddle — to confuse
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- bemurmur — to murmur at
- bemusing — to bewilder or confuse.
- bemuzzle — to put a muzzle on
- benumbed — made numb; very cold
- beplumed — decorated with feathers
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- besmudge — to blacken
- biennium — a period of two years
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
- bimanous — (of man and the higher primates) having two hands distinct in form and function from the feet
- bimanual — using or requiring both hands
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- blackmur — R(ichard) P(almer) 1904–65, U.S. critic and poet.
- blameful — deserving blame; guilty