8-letter words containing u, n, m
- maulmain — Moulmein.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- mcguffin — an object or event in a book or a film that serves as the impetus for the plot
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- merengue — a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin, characterized by a stiff-legged, limping step.
- meringue — merengue.
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- milk run — a routine trip or undertaking, especially one presenting little danger or difficulty: The flight from New York to Chicago was a milk run for the experienced pilot and crew.
- mill run — a quantity of ore whose quality or mineral content is tested by milling
- mill-run — coming directly from a mill, especially without having been sorted: mill-run carpets.
- millburn — a township in NE New Jersey.
- mind out — to be careful or pay attention
- mind you — although, having said that
- mindfuck — the deliberate infliction of psychological damage
- mindfull — Archaic form of mindful.
- minimums — Plural form of minimum.
- mininuke — a low-powered nuclear device.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- minshuku — a guesthouse
- minuends — Plural form of minuend.
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- minutest — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- minutial — having the nature of minutiae, or relating to minutiae
- minuting — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- miquelon — St. Pierre and Miquelon.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- missound — to sound or pronounce wrongly
- misunion — A bad or wrong union or alliance.
- misusing — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- mock sun — parhelion.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- mole run — any part of a system of underground tunnels, rooms, etc, prepared for use in the event of nuclear war
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- moluccan — of or relating to a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 2 223 000 (1999 est). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- mon dieu — my God
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).