9-letter words containing u, m
- circumfer — (obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
- circumfix — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- clitellum — a thickened saddle-like region of epidermis in earthworms and leeches whose secretions bind copulating worms together and later form a cocoon around the eggs
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- co durham — County Durham
- coccidium — any parasitic protozoan of the order Coccidia
- coenamour — to enamour jointly
- coenobium — a monastery or convent
- colchicum — any Eurasian liliaceous plant of the genus Colchicum, such as the autumn crocus
- coliseums — Plural form of coliseum.
- collegium — (in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
- colluvium — a mixture of rock fragments from the bases of cliffs
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colosseum — an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75–80 ad
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- colourism — discrimination in which people are judged on the basis of their skin colour
- colourman — a person who deals in paints
- columbary — a dovecote
- columbate — any salt of columbic acid
- columbian — of or relating to the United States
- columbine — any plant of the ranunculaceous genus Aquilegia, having purple, blue, yellow, or red flowers with five spurred petals
- columbite — a black mineral consisting of a niobium oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: occurs in coarse granite, often with tantalite, and is an ore of niobium. Formula: (Fe, Mn)(Nb)2O6
- columbium — niobium
- columbous — niobous.
- columella — the central part of the spore-producing body of some fungi and mosses
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- comayagua — a city in W central Honduras.
- combretum — any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Combretum, native mainly to tropical and subtropical Africa and producing attractive flowers
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- combustor — the combustion system of a jet engine or ramjet, comprising the combustion chamber, the fuel injection apparatus, and the igniter
- come true — If a dream, wish, or prediction comes true, it actually happens.
- come upon — If you come upon someone or something, you meet them or find them by chance.
- comfiture — (obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
- comitatus — a retinue of warriors serving a leader, esp in pre-Christian Germanic cultures, such as Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Scandinavia
- comminute — to break (a bone) into several small fragments
- communard — a member of a commune
- communing — to partake of the Eucharist.
- communion — Communion with nature or with a person is the feeling that you are sharing thoughts or feelings with them.
- communise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of communize.