8-letter words containing um
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- laudanum — a tincture of opium.
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- lixivium — the solution, containing alkaline salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes with water; lye.
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lumbered — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberer — A person engaged in the lumber trade, especially a lumberjack.
- lumberly — heavy and unwieldy
- luminant — That illuminates; luminous.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- luminism — a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lutetium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lygodium — (botany) Any of the genus Lygodium of climbing ferns.
- macallum — an ice cream with raspberry sauce
- manumits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manumit.
- masurium — technetium
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- maximums — Plural form of maximum.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- mellitum — mellite.
- mezereum — a shrub, Daphne mezereum, native to Eurasia, having clusters of fragrant purplish flowers.
- minimums — Plural form of minimum.
- 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.
- monument — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- mutandum — a thing which is to be changed
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- myoporum — any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- nebulium — a hypothetical element once thought to be present in emission nebulae because of certain unidentified spectral lines, now known to be forbidden transitions of oxygen and nitrogen ions.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- nihonium — a highly radioactive element, of which only a few atoms have ever been produced. Symbol: Nh; atomic no: 113; atomic wt: 286
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nobelium — a transuranic element in the actinium series. Symbol: No; atomic number: 102.
- nonhuman — not human.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit