9-letter words containing um
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- illumined — Simple past tense and past participle of illumine.
- illuminer — an illuminator
- illumines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illumine.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- impluvium — a basin or tank within a compluvium.
- in-humane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indecorum — indecorous behavior or character.
- infinitum — to infinity; endlessly; without limit.
- inhumanly — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- intumesce — to swell up, as with heat; become tumid.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- ip number — internet address
- irrumatio — Alternative form of irrumation.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- jumada ii — the sixth month of the Muslim year
- jumbo jet — a widebody jet airliner.
- jumboized — Simple past tense and past participle of jumboize.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump ball — a ball tossed into the air above and between two opposing players by the referee in putting the ball into play.
- jump boot — a heavy leather boot originally designed for wear by paratroopers.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- jump pass — a pass in which a player leaps into the air and throws the ball to a teammate before returning to the ground.
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- jump ship — to desert, esp to leave a ship in which one is legally bound to serve
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- jump suit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- jump turn — a turn in which a skier plants one or both poles in the snow in advance of the forward ski, bends close to the ground, and pivots in the air around the pole or poles.
- jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
- jumped-up — having recently gained prominence or fame and appearing arrogant.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpsuits — Plural form of jumpsuit.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- karakorum — a ruined city in central Mongolian People's Republic: capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
- kauri gum — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- kizil kum — Kyzyl Kum.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.