10-letter words containing a, d, s, u, m
- guardrooms — Plural form of guardroom.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- immeasured — immeasurable
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- magnitudes — Plural form of magnitude.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- mansuetude — mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
- masquerade — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- measuredly — In a measured fashion.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- medusahead — A type of bristly grass native to Europe.
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- misaccused — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- misandrous — Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
- miseducate — to educate improperly.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modulators — Plural form of modulator.
- monandrous — of, relating to, or characterized by monandry.
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- moustached — Having moustache.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mud stream — mudflow.
- muscadelle — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- muscadines — Plural form of muscadine.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- oedematous — (British spelling) Alternative form of edematous.
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- 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.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals