9-letter words containing u, n, e, m
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- 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.
- 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.
- main menu — website, DVD, etc.: navigation page
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- 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.
- manducate — to chew; masticate; eat.
- maneouvre — Misspelling of manoeuvre.
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- 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.
- 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.
- manualize — (transitive) To make manual.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- marquesan — a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mauna kea — a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. 13,784 feet (4201 meters).
- maundered — Simple past tense and past participle of maunder.
- maunderer — A babbler, a mumbler, one who speaks incessantly.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- may queen — a girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honored as queen in the festivities of May Day.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- 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.
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- melanuria — the presence of melanin in urine
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- 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
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.