10-letter words containing a, s, e, m
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- amateurism — Amateurism is the belief that people should take part in sports and other activities as a hobby, for pleasure, rather than as a job, for money.
- amazeballs — an expression of enthusiastic approval
- amazedness — the quality of being amazed
- amazements — Plural form of amazement.
- amberjacks — Plural form of amberjack.
- ambilevous — (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
- ambisexual — relating to or affecting both the male and female sexes
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- amen glass — a British glass of the mid-18th century, having engraved on it a sentiment favoring the cause of the Old Pretender, concluded with the word “Amen.”.
- amendments — the act of amending or the state of being amended.
- amensalism — a relationship between two species of organisms in which the individuals of one species adversely affect those of the other and are unaffected themselves.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- amersfoort — a town in the central Netherlands, in E Utrecht province. Pop: 131 000 (2003 est)
- ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
- ammonifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ammonify.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amoebiasis — infection, esp of the intestines, caused by the parasitic amoeba Endamoeba histolytica
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- ampelopsis — any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America
- ampersands — Plural form of ampersand.
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- amphimixes — Plural form of amphimixis.
- amplidynes — Plural form of amplidyne.
- amplifiers — Plural form of amplifier.
- amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
- amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
- amusements — Plural form of amusement.
- amylaceous — of or resembling starch
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
- anatomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anatomize.
- anaximenes — 6th century bc, Greek philosopher who believed air to be the primary substance
- andamanese — Also, Andaman. Also called Andaman Islander. a member of a physically distinctive people that comprise the indigenous population of the Andaman Islands.
- anemoscope — any device that shows the presence and direction of a wind
- anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
- aneurismal — Alternative spelling of aneurysmal.
- aneurysmal — a permanent cardiac or arterial dilatation usually caused by weakening of the vessel wall.
- angiosperm — any seed-bearing plant of the phylum Angiospermophyta (division Angiospermae in traditional systems), in which the ovules are enclosed in an ovary, which develops into the fruit after fertilization; any flowering plant
- anglesmith — a blacksmith skilled in forging angle irons, beams, etc., into various forms used in shipbuilding.
- animalness — The quality of being animal; animality.
- anisomeric — (of a chemical compound) lacking isomers
- anonymised — Simple past tense and past participle of anonymise.