6-letter words containing u, n, m
- mifune — Toshiro [tuh-sheer-oh;; Japanese taw-shee-raw] /təˈʃɪər oʊ;; Japanese tɔˈʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1920–97, Japanese film actor, born in China.
- mimune — Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers
- mingus — Charles ("Charlie") 1922–79, U.S. jazz bass player and composer.
- minium — red lead.
- minour — Obsolete form of minor.
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minuit — Peter, 1580–1638, Dutch colonial administrator in America: director general of the New Netherlands 1626–31.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- misrun — an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- moulin — a nearly vertical shaft or cavity worn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice.
- mounds — Plural form of mound.
- mounts — A backing or setting on which a photograph, gem, or work of art is set for display.
- mounty — (obsolete) The rise of a hawk, after prey.
- mourne — The armed or feruled end of a staff.
- mourns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mourn.
- moutan — a variety of Asian tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa, having large, colourful flowers
- mouton — sheepskin that has been processed to resemble another fur, especially seal or beaver.
- mucins — Plural form of mucin.
- mudhen — any of various birds that frequent marshes or similar places, esp the coots, rails, etc
- muffin — an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan (muffin pan) containing a series of cuplike forms.
- muggen — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Made of earthenware in contradistinction to china, metal, wood, etc.
- mukden — a former name of Shenyang.
- mullen — any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
- multan — a city in E central Pakistan.
- munchy — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- muncie — a city in E Indiana.
- mundic — one of several forms of pyrites, esp iron pyrites
- mungas — Plural form of munga.
- munich — a state in SE Germany: formerly a kingdom. 27,239 sq. mi. (70,550 sq. km). Capital: Munich.
- munify — to fortify
- munite — to fortify.
- munity — (obsolete) freedom; security; immunity.
- munroe — Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- munsee — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- munsey — Frank Andrew, 1854–1925, U.S. publisher.
- munshi — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- munted — (British, slang) Drunk.
- munter — (British, slang, pejorative) An ugly person.
- muntin — Also called sash bar. a bar for holding the edges of window panes within a sash.
- muonic — Pertaining to, or composed of muons.
- murano — an island suburb of Venice: cathedral; noted for Venetian glass manufacture.
- murein — Peptidoglycan, mucopeptide.
- murine — belonging or pertaining to the Muridae, the family of rodents that includes the mice and rats.
- muring — Present participle of mure.
- musang — A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant.
- mushin — a city in SW Nigeria, NW of Lagos.
- musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- muslin — a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- musmon — A kind of sheep, the mouflon.