9-letter words containing u, m
- marquetry — inlaid work of variously colored woods or other materials, especially in furniture.
- marquette — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), ("Père Marquette") 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
- marquises — Plural form of marquis.
- marrubium — Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; hoarhound.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marsquake — a tremor, similar to an earthquake, on Mars
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- martyrium — a place where the relics of a martyr are kept.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- masculate — (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- masculism — Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
- masculist — Of or relating to masculism.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- mass cult — something regarded as significant by a minority, but a very large one
- mass noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
- masseuses — Plural form of masseuse.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- matanuska — a river in S Alaska flowing SW to Cook Inlet. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- mathusala — Methuselah (def 1).
- matricula — a register of people belonging to a group or organization, such as a guild or university
- matsutake — A kind of mushroom, Tricholoma matsutake.
- matsuyama — a seaport on NW Shikoku, in SW Japan.
- matterful — (of an author or book) full of interesting or significant ideas
- maturable — capable of being matured
- maturated — Simple past tense and past participle of maturate.
- matutinal — pertaining to or occurring in the morning; early in the day.
- maudlinly — In a maudlin fashion.
- maulstick — mahlstick.
- mauna kea — a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. 13,784 feet (4201 meters).
- mauna loa — an active volcano on the island of Hawaii. 13,680 feet (4170 meters).
- maundered — Simple past tense and past participle of maunder.
- maunderer — A babbler, a mumbler, one who speaks incessantly.
- mauritian — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- mauritius — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- mausoleal — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausoleum — a stately and magnificent tomb.
- maxed out — maximum.
- maxillula — either of the first pair of maxillae of a crustacean
- maxim gun — an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.