10-letter words containing a, s, m, u
- kommunarsk — a city in E Ukraine.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- latissimus — Either of a pair of large, roughly triangular muscles covering the lower part of the back, extending from the sacral, lumbar, and lower thoracic vertebrae to the armpits.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- 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
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- magnitudes — Plural form of magnitude.
- major suit — hearts or spades, especially with reference to their higher point values.
- majusculae — Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
- majuscular — (of letters) uppercase, capitalized.
- majuscules — Plural form of majuscule.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- malt sugar — maltose
- malt-sugar — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- 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.
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- mannequins — Plural form of mannequin.
- manoeuvres — A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.
- mansuetude — mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
- manu samoa — the international Rugby Union football team of Western Samoa
- 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.
- marlaceous — Resembling marl.
- marquesses — Plural form of marquess.
- marquisate — the rank of a marquis.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.