9-letter words containing u, m
- maximumly — In a maximum manner.
- may queen — a girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honored as queen in the festivities of May Day.
- mazaedium — a fruiting body of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota in which there is a powdery mass of spores.
- mbujimayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mccullers — Carson [kahr-suh n] /ˈkɑr sən/ (Show IPA), 1917–1967, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- measurers — Plural form of measurer.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- medullary — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling the medulla of an organ or the medulla oblongata.
- medullate — medullated, or having a medulla or pith
- meet cute — to meet for the first time, often in a contrived or unusual way
- meet-cute — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megajoule — a unit of work or energy, equal to one million joules.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaquake — an earthquake of exceptional destructive power, esp one with a magnitude of 8 or greater, which may generate a tsunami
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- melaleuca — any of various chiefly Australian shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Melaleuca, of the myrtle family, including the cajeput and several species of bottlebrush.
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- melungeon — a member of a people of mixed white, black, and American Indian ancestry living in the southern Appalachians.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- menstruum — a solvent.
- mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
- menuisier — a French joiner
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- mercurius — (Mercurius) died a.d. 535, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 533–535.
- mercurize — mercurate (def 2).
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- meritious — Having merit.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)