10-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- aneurysmal — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- anonymouse — (informal) a person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously.
- anthersmut — a species of parasitic fungus, Ustilago violacea
- anthuriums — Plural form of anthurium.
- antimachus — Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c, Greek poet.
- antimasque — a comic or grotesque dance, presented between the acts of a masque
- antimonous — of or containing antimony in the trivalent state
- antiserums — Plural form of antiserum.
- antonymous — of, or having the nature of, an antonym; opposite in meaning
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- archemorus — Opheltes.
- arcosolium — (in Roman catacombs) an arched recess for a sarcophagus.
- armigerous — of, having, or entitled to have a coat of arms
- armourless — having no armour
- army-issue — given to soldiers in order to help them carry out their duties
- as much as — You use as much as before an amount to suggest that it is surprisingly large.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- assimulate — (obsolete) To assimilate.
- assumingly — in a presuming manner
- assumpsits — Plural form of assumpsit.
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- assumptive — taken for granted.
- astomatous — (of animals) having no mouth
- athenaeums — Plural form of athenaeum.
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- autogamous — Botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy).
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- automatics — Plural form of automatic.
- automatism — the state or quality of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action
- automatist — the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action.
- automatons — Plural form of automaton.
- automatous — a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autonomist — a person desiring or advocating autonomy
- autonomous — An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- autotomise — Alt form autotomize.
- autotomous — separating body parts in order to escape danger
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone