6-letter words containing a, m, u
- humans — Plural form of human.
- humash — the Pentateuch.
- humate — (chemistry) A salt of humic acid.
- iambus — iamb.
- idumea — Esau, the brother of Jacob.
- jam up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
- jam-up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
- jambul — An evergreen tropical tree, Syzygium cumini.
- jumada — either of two successive months of the Muslim year, the fifth (Jumada I) or the sixth (Jumada II)
- jumars — Plural form of jumar.
- jumart — the mythical offspring of a bull and a mare
- kalium — (obsolete) Potassium.
- karamu — a small New Zealand tree, Coprosma robusta, with glossy leaves and orange fruit
- kimura — (combat sports) An armlock where the implementer isolates the opponent's arm and torques the shoulder in order to cause pain or injury.
- komura — Marquis Jutaro [joo-tah-raw] /ˈdʒu tɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1855–1911, Japanese statesman and diplomat.
- kumara — (New Zealand) A sweet potato.
- kumari — maiden: used in some courtesy titles for young women
- kumasi — a city in and the capital of Ashanti district, in S Ghana.
- labium — a lip or liplike part.
- labrum — a lip or liplike part.
- lacmus — (archaic) Litmus.
- lamium — any of several plants belonging to the genus Lamium, of the mint family, some species of which have whitish or variegated leaves and are cultivated as ornamentals or ground cover.
- latium — a country in ancient Italy, SE of Rome.
- lemalu — Jonathan (Fa'afetai). born 1976, New Zealand singer of Samoan descent; a bass-baritone noted esp for his lieder recitals
- lucuma — a genus of trees, family Sapotaceae, of sub-tropical regions in South America, bearing a sweet egg-shaped fruit of the same name
- lumbal — (anatomy) Alternative form of lumbar.
- lumbar — of or relating to the loin or loins.
- lumina — Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
- ma'mun — (abu-al-'Abbās 'Abdullāh) a.d. 786–833, caliph of Baghdad 813–833 (son of Harun al-Rashid).
- mabuse — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- macoun — a juicy, late-ripening variety of apple that originated in Canada.
- macula — a spot or blotch, especially on one's skin; macule.
- macule — mackle.
- madafu — coconut milk
- maddux — Gregory Alan ("Greg") born 1966, U.S. baseball pitcher.
- madiun — a city on E central Java, in Indonesia.
- madura — Dutch Madoera [mah-doo-rah] /mɑˈdu rɑ/ (Show IPA). an island in Indonesia, off the NE coast of Java. 2112 sq. mi. (5470 sq. km).
- maduro — strong and darkly colored.
- magnum — a large wine bottle having a capacity of two ordinary bottles or 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts).
- magnus — the Great Year: a cycle of years, usually a thousand, that begins with a Golden Age, steadily deteriorates, and ends with a universal catastrophe, either a fire or a flood.
- maguey — any of several plants of the genus Agave, of the agave family, especially the cantala, A. cantala.
- mahewu — (in South Africa) fermented liquid mealie-meal porridge, used as a stimulant, esp by Black Africans
- mahout — the keeper or driver of an elephant, especially in India and the East Indies.
- majuro — the capital island of the Marshall Islands. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
- makalu — a mountain in the Himalayas, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet. 27,790 feet (8470 meters).
- makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
- makuta — plural of likuta.
- makutu — witchcraft or magic
- malouf — David. born 1934, Australian novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His novels include An Imaginary Life (1978), Remembering Babylon (1993), The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996), and Ransom (2009)