8-letter words containing u, m
- bloombug — (humour) A bug that accidentally generates money.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue mud — a deep-sea sediment of fine silt and clay that derives its bluish color from organic material and iron sulfide.
- bluesman — a musician who plays the blues
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bomb out — If a building or area is bombed out, it is destroyed by bombs. If people are bombed out, their houses are destroyed by bombs.
- bomb run — the part of a bombing mission between the sighting of the target or its identification by electronic instruments and the release of the bombs.
- boom out — sound loudly and deeply
- boomburb — a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- boulimia — bulimia.
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- buckjump — (of a horse) to buck.
- buddhism — Buddhism is a religion which teaches that the way to end suffering is by overcoming your desires.
- bulimiac — pertaining to, resembling, or affected by bulimia.
- bullyism — the belief in systematic bullying
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bumfluff — the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- buncombe — bunkum
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bunkroom — temporary sleeping quarters, especially for travelers.
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- buy time — gain time (sense 2) (at , time)
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calakmul — a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- cameroun — Cameroon
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- campus's — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- canticum — a canticle