10-letter words containing a, r, u, m
- puppy farm — an establishment, often with poor conditions for housing the animals, where puppies are bred for profit
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- quadriform — having four parts or sides
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrivium — (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- quadrumvir — a member of a quadrumvirate.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- raduliform — rasp-like
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- rajpramukh — (in India) the title given to a governor or raja of a state between 1948 and 1956
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- rehumanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- remunerate — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- renumerate — to represent numbers by symbols.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- round clam — quahog.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- ruminantly — in a ruminant manner
- rumination — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- run a mile — If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.