9-letter words containing u, m
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lumpingly — clumsily and heavily
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- maclaurin — Colin, 1698–1746, Scottish mathematician.
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- maculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maculate.
- mad about — passionate about
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- maha yuga — a period of 12,000 years, comprising four Yugas.
- mahmud ii — 1785–1839, sultan of Turkey 1809–39.
- maiasaura — a species of large, herbivorous, duck-billed dinosaur
- maiduguri — a city in NE Nigeria.
- maieutics — the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- maiquetia — a city in the Federal District, in N Venezuela.
- majuscule — (of letters) capital.
- make sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- malamutes — Plural form of malamute.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- mallemuck — mollymawk.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.