9-letter words containing u, m
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- impluvium — a basin or tank within a compluvium.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impounded — Simple past tense and past participle of impound.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- impromptu — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- impugning — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- impundulu — a mythical bird associated with witchcraft, frequently manifested as the secretary bird
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- in-humane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- induement — The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment.
- infinitum — to infinity; endlessly; without limit.
- inhumanly — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- intermure — to wall in
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- inurement — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inurnment — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- ip number — internet address
- irrumatio — Alternative form of irrumation.
- isodomous — (in Greek history) relating to isodomon
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- isomerous — having an equal number of parts, markings, etc.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- isthmuses — Plural form of isthmus.
- iudgement — Obsolete spelling of judgement.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jesuitism — the system, principles, or practices of the Jesuits.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- jormunrek — king of the Goths, murderer of Svanhild, the daughter of Sigurd: killed by the Gjukungs; probably identical with Ermanaric (4th century a.d.), the Ostrogothic leader.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- judgement — an act or instance of judging.
- judgmatic — judicious.
- judgments — Plural form of judgment.