10-letter words containing a, d, m, s
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- mutualised — Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise.
- mydriatics — Plural form of mydriatic.
- news media — media1 (def 2).
- nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
- normalised — normalisation
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- nystagmoid — having a similarity to or characteristics of nystagmus
- oddsmakers — Plural form of oddsmaker.
- oedematous — (British spelling) Alternative form of edematous.
- old master — an eminent artist of an earlier period, especially from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
- order arms — (in the manual of arms in close-order drill) a position in which the rifle is held at the right side, with its butt on the ground.
- osmic acid — a crystalline or amorphous, colorless, poisonous compound, OsO 4 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether: used for microscopic staining, in photography, and as a catalyst in organic synthesis.
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
- radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- radio mast — transmission tower
- randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- roberdsman — a robber
- saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
- salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sand smelt — variety of saltwater fish
- schoolmaid — a schoolgirl
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- semi-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- semi-nomad — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.