8-letter words containing um
- frumpily — In a frumpy manner.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- frustums — Plural form of frustum.
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- fumarase — an enzyme found in liver and muscle which acts as a catalyst in the inter-conversion of fumarate and malate
- fumarate — the salt of fumaric acid, a key chemical intermediate in the Krebs cycle.
- fumarium — A smoke chamber used in Ancient Rome to enhance the flavor of wine.
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- fumigant — any volatile or volatilizable chemical compound used as a disinfectant or pesticide.
- fumigate — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumingly — In a rage.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- fumosity — the quality or state of being fumous or fumy
- furculum — furcula.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- galumphs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galumph.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gazumped — Simple past tense and past participle of gazump.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- glucinum — (formerly) beryllium. Symbol: Gl.
- glum bum — a pessimistic person
- glumella — a palea
- glumness — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- glumpily — in a glumpy manner
- glumpish — glum
- gluonium — glueball.
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grey gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of New South Wales having dull grey bark, esp Eucalyptus punctata
- grumbled — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grumbler — A person who persistently grumbles; a complainer.
- grumbles — Plural form of grumble.
- grumness — the quality of being grum
- grumphie — a familiar name for a pig.
- grumpier — Comparative form of grumpy.
- grumpily — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- grumping — Present participle of grump.
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- grumpity — Nonce variation of the word grump, usually used as an intensifier.
- guaiacum — any of several tropical American trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Guaiacum of the caltrop family; lignum vitae.
- guar gum — a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gum thus — thickened turpentine, used in certain oil paints.
- gum tree — any tree that exudes gum, as a eucalyptus, the sour gum, or the sweet gum.
- gumballs — Plural form of gumball.
- gumboils — Plural form of gumboil.