7-letter words containing a, m, u
- armours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of armour.
- armoury — A country's armoury is all the weapons and military equipment that it has.
- aruwimi — a river in NE Democratic Republic of Congo, rising near Lake Albert as the Ituri and flowing west into the River Congo. Length: about 1288 km (800 miles)
- as much — You use as much in expressions such as 'I thought as much' and 'I guessed as much' after you have just been told something and you want to say that you already believed or expected it to be true.
- asculum — an ancient town in Apulia, SE Italy: Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 279 B.C.
- assumed — false; fictitious
- assumer — One who assumes.
- assumes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of assume.
- assumpt — (obsolete) That which is assumed; an assumption.
- asylums — Plural form of asylum.
- atriums — Plural form of atrium.
- augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
- ausform — to temper or deform steel in order to make it stronger and more durable
- automan — someone who manufactures motor cars
- automat — a machine that automatically dispenses goods, such as cigarettes, when money is inserted
- autonym — a piece of literature published under the real name of an author
- autumns — Plural form of autumn.
- autumny — characteristic of autumn
- azimuth — the angular distance usually measured clockwise from the north point of the horizon to the intersection with the horizon of the vertical circle passing through a celestial body
- azymous — unleavened
- babudom — the rule of babus
- baculum — a bony support in the penis of certain mammals, esp the carnivores
- bakhmut — former name of Artemovsk.
- ballium — bailey.
- balmung — (in the Nibelungenlied) Siegfried's sword
- bay rum — an aromatic liquid, used in medicines and cosmetics, originally obtained by distilling the leaves of the bayberry tree (Pimenta racemosa) with rum: now also synthesized from alcohol, water, and various oils
- belgaum — a city in India, in Karnataka: cotton, furniture, leather. Pop: 399 600 (2001)
- bermuda — a UK Overseas Territory consisting of a group of over 150 coral islands (the Bermudas) in the NW Atlantic: discovered in about 1503, colonized by the British by 1612, although not acquired by the British crown until 1684. Capital: Hamilton. Pop: 69 467 (2013 est). Area: 53 sq km (20 sq miles)
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- cacumen — an apex
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- camaieu — a cameo
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem