9-letter words containing umb
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbermen — Plural form of lumberman.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- lumbrical — any of four wormlike muscles in the palm of the hand and in the sole of the foot.
- lumbricus — a member of a genus of worms of the same name, the most common of which is the common earth worm, Lumbricus terrestris
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numbingly — causing numbness or insensibility; stupefying: the numbing effects of grief; a story repeated with numbing regularity.
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- obumbrate — to darken, overshadow, or cloud.
- outfumble — to exceed in fumbling
- outnumber — to exceed in number.
- penumbral — 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 bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumb-bob — plummet (def 1).
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbless — incapable of being sounded
- plumbness — 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.
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- recumbent — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- slumbered — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- succumber — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
- thumbhole — a hole into which a thumb can be inserted, as to provide a grip.
- thumbling — an extremely small person; a dwarf
- thumbnail — the nail of the thumb.
- thumbs up — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-up — an act, instance, or gesture of assent, approval, or the like.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- tom thumb — a diminutive hero of folk tales.
- tumble to — to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- tumblebug — any of several dung beetles that roll balls of dung in which they deposit their eggs and in which the young develop.
- tumbleset — a somersault
- umbellate — having or forming an umbel or umbels.
- umbellule — one of the secondary umbels in a compound umbel.
- umberto i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- umbilical — of, relating to, or characteristic of an umbilicus or umbilical cord.
- umbilicus — Anatomy. the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel.
- umble pie — humble pie (def 1).
- umbracula — umbrella-like structures