9-letter words containing u, m
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- maltitude — (math) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- manchukuo — a former country (1932–45) in E Asia, under Japanese control: included Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia; now a part of China.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mancunian — a native or resident of Manchester, England.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- mannequin — a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.
- manoeuver — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of maneuver.
- manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- manualize — (transitive) To make manual.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manubrium — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- maquettes — Plural form of maquette.
- maquisard — maquis (def 2).
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- marauders — Plural form of marauder.
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- marijuana — hemp (def 1).
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- marquesan — a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.