8-letter words containing umb
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- northumb — Northumberland
- numbered — Simple past tense and past participle of number.
- numberer — One who numbers.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- numbness — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- numbnuts — a stupid or despicable person
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumbery — a plumber's workshop.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- plumbous — containing bivalent lead.
- renumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- slumbery — slumberous.
- stumbled — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- stumbles — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thumbnut — wing nut.
- thumbpot — a tiny flowerpot
- trumbull — John, 1756–1843, U.S. painter (son of Jonathan Trumbull).
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- umbelled — having or arranged in umbels
- umbellet — an umbellule.
- umbonate — having an umbo or projecting boss.
- umbrated — drawn in a faint or shaded manner
- umbratic — of or relating to the shade or shadows
- umbrella — a light, small, portable, usually circular cover for protection from rain or sun, consisting of a fabric held on a collapsible frame of thin ribs radiating from the top of a carrying stick or handle.
- umbrette — hammerhead (def 3).
- unnumbed — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- usumbura — former name of Bujumbura.
- yumberry — the purple-red edible fruit of an E Asian tree
- zerumbet — (archaic) The rhizome of Zingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.