9-letter words containing u, n, e, m
- mundanely — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- mundelein — a city in NE Illinois.
- mung bean — small green legume
- muniments — muniments, Law. a document, as a title deed or a charter, by which rights or privileges are defended or maintained.
- murdering — Present participle of murder.
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- muscadine — a grape, Vitis rotundifolia, of the southern U.S., having dull purple, thick-skinned musky fruit and being the origin of many grape varieties.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscleman — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musclemen — Plural form of muscleman.
- mushiness — resembling mush; pulpy.
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- muskiness — The characteristic of being musky.
- muskmelon — a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- musteline — belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mustiness — having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- muttering — to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
- muzziness — The state or quality of being muzzy.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- myoneural — of or relating to both muscle and nerve.
- neckmould — (architecture) A small convex moulding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.
- neimenggu — Inner Mongolia.
- neodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element occurring with cerium and other rare-earth metals, and having rose-colored to violet-colored salts. Symbol: Nd; atomic weight: 144.24; atomic number: 60; specific gravity: 6.9 at 20°C.
- neptunium — a transuranic element produced in nuclear reactors by the neutron bombardment of U-238: decays rapidly to plutonium and then to U-235. Symbol: Np; atomic number: 93.
- neurinoma — A schwannoma.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neurotomy — the cutting of a nerve, as to relieve neuralgia.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- ngerulmud — the capital of Palau (from 2006), in the state of Melekeok on the island of Babelthuap
- nicodemus — a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin who became a secret follower of Jesus. John 3:1–21; 7:50–52; 19:39.
- no-see-um — punkie.
- nonimmune — (medicine) Not immune; lacking immunity.
- nonlegume — not a vegetable of the family Fabaceae
- nonmature — not mature; immature
- novaesium — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Düsseldorf: founded as a Roman fortress in the 1st century ad. Pop: 152 050 (2003 est)
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- numeraire — a basic standard by which values are measured, as gold in the monetary system.
- numerally — According to number; in number; numerically.