9-letter words containing ump
- 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.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lumpingly — clumsily and heavily
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
- mine dump — a large mound of residue, esp from gold-mining operations
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- mumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy (opposed to sumpsimus).
- no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
- off stump — the outside stump opposite the one at which the batsman stands.
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- pole-jump — pole-vault.
- pump iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- pump room — a room at a spa for drinking mineral waters.
- pumped up — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- stump bed — a bed without posts.
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- sump pump — a pump for removing liquid or wastes from a sump.
- sumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- sumptuous — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- transumpt — an official or legal transcription, usually an old one
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- triumphed — the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
- trumpeted — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- trumpeter — a person who plays a trumpet; trumpet player.
- trumpetry — the manner of playing the trumpet: The character of modern trumpetry has changed.
- tub-thump — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- turbopump — a turbine-driven pump, as one used to feed propellant to a rocket engine.
- umpteenth — of an indefinitely large number in succession: He was the umpteenth person to arrive.
- uncrumple — to eliminate crumples from
- unrumpled — neat
- wind pump — a pump driven by a windmill.