10-letter words containing a, t, m, o, s
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- manometers — Plural form of manometer.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- masochists — Plural form of masochist.
- mason city — a city in N Iowa.
- mass ratio — the ratio of the mass of a fully-fuelled rocket at liftoff to the mass of the rocket without fuel
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- mast house — a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.
- mastectomy — the operation of removing all or part of the breast or mamma.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- masterwort — a European plant, Astrantia major, of the parsley family, having pinkish-rose or white flower clusters with purplish bracts beneath.
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- mastodonic — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- mastodynia — (medicine) mastalgia; pain in the breast.
- mastopathy — any disease of the breast.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matriotism — Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
- matte shot — a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- megastores — Plural form of megastore.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metabiosis — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metalloids — Plural form of metalloid.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- metastasio — (Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi) 1698–1782, Italian poet and dramatist.
- miasmatous — producing a miasma
- microstate — ministate.
- microwatts — Plural form of microwatt.
- migrations — Plural form of migration.
- milk-toast — easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
- minnesotan — a state in the N central United States. 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Capital: St. Paul. Abbreviation: MN (for use with zip code), Minn.
- misappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
- miscatalog — to enter in a catalogue incorrectly