10-letter words containing a, n, i, m, l, s
- flamininus — Titus Quinctius (ˈtaɪtəs ˈkwɪŋktɪəs). ?230–?174 bc, Roman general and statesman: defeated Macedonia (197) and proclaimed the independence of the Greek states (196)
- foilswoman — a woman who uses or specializes in using a foil
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- generalism — Generalization: lack of specialization.
- grimalkins — Plural form of grimalkin.
- haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
- iconoclasm — the action or spirit of iconoclasts.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- initialism — a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately, as FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- instalment — the act of installing.
- insularism — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulinoma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- invalidism — prolonged ill health.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- isoaminile — a drug formerly used to suppress coughing. Formula: C16H24N2
- italianism — an Italian practice, trait, or idiom.
- journalism — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
- karamanlis — Konstantinos [kawn-stahn-dee-naws] /ˌkɔn stɑnˈdi nɔs/ (Show IPA), 1907–98, Greek politician: prime minister 1955–63, 1974–80; president 1980–85, 1990–95.
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laminarins — Plural form of laminarin.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- 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.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- lineaments — Plural form of lineament.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- madeleines — Plural form of madeleine.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- malignants — Plural form of malignant.
- malinovsky — Rodion Yakovlevich [ruh-dyi-awn yah-kuh-vlyi-vyich] /rə dyɪˈɔn ˈyɑ kə vlyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Russian army officer: minister of defense of the U.S.S.R. 1957–67.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- 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.
- mammalians — an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.