6-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- mauves — Plural form of mauve.
- meatus — an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.
- medusa — a saucer-shaped or dome-shaped, free-swimming jellyfish or hydra.
- miaous — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- mucosa — mucous membrane.
- mudras — Plural form of mudra.
- mulgas — Plural form of mulga.
- mullas — (in Islamic countries) a title of respect for a person who is learned in, teaches, or expounds the sacred law.
- mungas — Plural form of munga.
- murals — Plural form of mural.
- musang — A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant.
- muscat — Sultanate of. Formerly Muscat and Oman. an independent sultanate in SE Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Capital: Muscat.
- musial — Stanley Frank ("Stan the Man") 1920–2013, U.S. baseball player.
- muskat — Obsolete form of musk cat.
- mutase — (biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule.
- omasum — the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum; the manyplies.
- qualms — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- ramous — ramose.
- sacrum — a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- samshu — a Chinese liqueur distilled from millet or rice.
- samsun — a city in N Turkey, in Asia.
- samuel — a judge and prophet of Israel. I Sam. 1–3; 8–15.
- shamus — a detective.
- simula — (language) SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
- squama — a scale or scalelike part, as of epidermis or bone.
- struma — Pathology. goiter.
- subman — a primitive form of human
- sukuma — a member of an agricultural people of northwestern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, who constitute the country's largest population group.
- sumach — any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- summat — Summat is a British dialect form of the word 'something'.
- unmask — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unseam — to open the seam or seams of; undo; rip apart: to unseam a dress.
- wammus — wamus (def 2).
- wampus — a strange or objectionable person; lout.