10-letter words containing a, n, u, r, s
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- marabuntas — Plural form of marabunta.
- marinus ii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- matureness — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- menstruant — A woman who is menstruating.
- menstruate — to undergo menstruation.
- mensurable — measurable.
- migrainous — Of, relating to, or afflicted with migraine.
- miniatures — Plural form of miniature.
- misandrous — Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
- missourian — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- monandrous — of, relating to, or characterized by monandry.
- monoculars — Plural form of monocular.
- mousterian — of or relating to a Middle Paleolithic culture of Neanderthal man dating to the early upper Pleistocene Epoch (c100,000–40,000 b.c.) and consisting of five or more stone-artifact traditions in Europe whose characteristic tools are side scrapers and points.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- muscarinic — of or relating to muscarine.
- musicianer — (slang) musician.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- naive user — A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who *has* experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity.
- nasturtium — any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
- naturalise — Alternative spelling of naturalize.
- naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
- naturalist — a person who studies or is an expert in natural history, especially a zoologist or botanist.
- naturistic — Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- nectareous — nectarous.
- neurinomas — Plural form of neurinoma.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- neurospora — a genus of fast-growing orange-red fungus characterized by markings on the spores resembling axons, used widely in genetic and biochemical research
- neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- neutralist — a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nonsecular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- numerators — Plural form of numerator.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- nurseryman — a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.