10-letter words containing a, h, i, m, s
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- ishmaelite — a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
- isochasmic — (of a line on a map) bounding areas of equal auroral frequency
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- kashmirian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Kashmir or the Kashmiri.
- kentishman — a native or inhabitant of Kent, England.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- machinists — Plural form of machinist.
- macintrash — /mak'in-trash"/ The Apple Macintosh, as described by a hacker who doesn"t appreciate being kept away from the *real computer* by the interface. The term maggotbox has been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Compare Macintoy. See also beige toaster, WIMP environment, point-and-drool interface, drool-proof paper, user-friendly.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- madonnaish — resembling a Madonna
- maestricht — Maastricht.
- maharishis — Plural form of maharishi.
- mahoganies — Plural form of mahogany.
- main shaft — the principal shaft of a motor, transmission, etc. (distinguished from jackshaft).
- mainsheets — Plural form of mainsheet.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicheism — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- marigraphs — Plural form of marigraph.
- marsh pink — any of several eastern North American plants belonging to the genus Sabatia, of the gentian family, having rose-pink flowers.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- marshiness — The quality or state of being marshy.
- masochists — Plural form of masochist.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchstick — a short, slender piece of flammable wood used in making matches.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matriarchs — A woman who is the head of a family or tribe.
- mattathias — died 167? b.c, Jewish priest in Judea (father of Judas Maccabaeus).
- mechanised — to make mechanical.
- mechanisms — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.