8-letter words containing um
- begummed — to smear, soil, clog, etc., with or as if with gum or a gummy substance.
- bejumble — to jumble up
- benumbed — made numb; very cold
- beplumed — decorated with feathers
- biennium — a period of two years
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- blumenau — a city in Santa Catarina state, S Brazil.
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brummell — George Bryan, called Beau Brummell. 1778–1840, English dandy: leader of fashion in the Regency period
- buckjump — (of a horse) to buck.
- bum-rush — to force one's way into; crash: to bum-rush a rap concert.
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bumfluff — the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- cambiums — Plural form of cambium.
- canticum — a canticle
- capsicum — Capsicums are peppers.
- cementum — a thin bonelike tissue that covers the dentine in the root of a tooth
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- cetaceum — spermaceti.
- chaumont — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- checksum — a digit representing the number of bits of information transmitted, attached to the end of a message in order to verify the integrity of data
- chetumal — city in SE Mexico: capital of Quintana Roo state: pop. 38,000
- chillums — Plural form of chillum.
- chromium — Chromium is a hard, shiny metallic element, used to make steel alloys and to coat other metals.
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- chummery — (India) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the w British Raj.
- chummily — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chumming — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- chumping — the act of collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
- chumship — friendship
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- cingulum — a girdle-like part, such as the ridge round the base of a tooth or the band of fibres connecting parts of the cerebrum
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clumpish — clumpy
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.