8-letter words containing um
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hump day — Wednesday
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- humpless — having no hump
- humstrum — a musical instrument that is of crude construction or out of tune
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- illicium — (ichthyology) The modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.
- illinium — promethium. Symbol: Il.
- illumine — Light up ; brighten.
- illuvium — the material accumulated through illuviation.
- imperium — command; supreme power.
- incumber — encumber.
- indicium — indicia (def 2).
- indusium — Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns.
- infodump — Alternative spelling of info-dump.
- ingenium — genius; talent
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumate — to bury; inhume
- inhuming — Present participle of inhume.
- inoculum — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- irrumate — To practice irrumation; to insert the penis violently into another's mouth.
- jet pump — A jet pump is a pump that operates on the principle of a high-pressure fluid jet and the venturi effect (= which exerts suction).
- jumada i — the fifth month of the Muslim year
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- jumboize — (nautical) To lengthen a ship replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
- jumbucks — Plural form of jumbuck.
- jump bid — a bid higher than necessary to reach the next bidding level, usually to indicate exceptional strength.
- jump cut — an abrupt break in the continuity of a scene created by editing out part of a shot or scene.
- jump jet — a jet airplane capable of taking off and landing vertically or on an extremely short runway or flight deck.
- jump out — be noticeable
- jump-off — an act or instance of jumping; leap.
- jumprock — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Moxostoma, of the southeastern U.S.
- jumpsuit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- kara kum — a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).
- kaumatua — a senior member of a tribe; elder
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kino gum — the reddish or black, catechulike inspissated juice or gum of certain tall trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to India and Sri Lanka, used in medicine, tanning, etc.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- kumamoto — a city on W central Kyushu, in SW Japan.
- kumquats — Plural form of kumquat.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- labdanum — a resinous juice that exudes from various rockroses of the genus Cistus: used in perfumery, fumigating substances, etc.
- labellum — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- laburnum — 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.