9-letter words containing u, n, m, s
- idomeneus — a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- illumines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illumine.
- immunised — Simple past tense and past participle of immunise.
- immunizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immunize.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- judgments — Plural form of judgment.
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- junkerism — the spirit or policy of the Junkers.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- kusimanse — (zoology) Several species of dwarf mongoose in genus Crossarchus.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- limousine — any large, luxurious automobile, especially one driven by a chauffeur.
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- 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.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- maneuvers — Plural form of maneuver.
- maneuvres — Plural form of maneuvre.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- manicheus — Manes.
- manicules — Plural form of manicule.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manualism — the theory or practice of education for the deaf employing and promoting the use of sign language as the primary means of communication.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- marinus i — died a.d. 884, pope 882–884.
- marquesan — a Polynesian native of the Marquesas Islands.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- 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.
- matanuska — a river in S Alaska flowing SW to Cook Inlet. 90 miles (145 km) long.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- 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.
- 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