10-letter words containing a, r, u, m
- numerators — Plural form of numerator.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- nurseryman — a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
- oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.
- octamerous — consisting of or divided into eight parts.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outmeasure — to measure out
- outmigrant — A person who has migrated from one place to another, especially within a country.
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- overmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- panaritium — a whitlow
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- panjandrum — a self-important or pretentious official.
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- per curiam — by the court
- permutable — to alter; change.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- petrolatum — a translucent gelatinous substance obtained from petroleum; used as a lubricant and in medicine as an ointment base and protective dressing
- photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praemunire — a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
- pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- promptuary — a storehouse
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propylaeum — Often, propylaea. a vestibule or entrance to a temple area or other enclosure, especially when elaborate or of architectural importance.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pump-water — water that has been sourced from under soil level by means of a pump