10-letter words containing d, r, u, m, e
- midcentury — Occurring around the center or middle of the century.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- minauderie — affectionate behaviour or flirtation
- minaudiere — a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman's cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.
- mistrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of mistrust.
- modern cut — any of several modifications or combinations of the brilliant cut, step cut, or table cut, having the girdle outline often in some novel form.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularize — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- moudiewart — a mole
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mouse deer — chevrotain
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mud dauber — any of several wasps of the family Sphecidae that build a nest of mud cells and provision it with spiders or insects.
- mud stream — mudflow.
- mud turtle — any of several small, freshwater turtles of the family Kinosternidae, of North and South America, as the dark-brown Kinosternon subrubrum, of the U.S.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- multiarmed — having multiple arms
- multigrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- murder one — first-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- murder two — second-degree murder. See under murder (def 1).
- murderball — A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated (\"murdered\") by being struck with the ball.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neverendum — A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- perdu-mont — Mont [mawn] /mɔ̃/ (Show IPA). French name of Monte Perdido.
- peridinium — a member of the Peridinium genus of marine- or freshwater-dwelling dinoflagellate organisms characterized by armoured plates
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- red mullet — a goatfish or surmullet.
- redocument — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- referendum — the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body, head of state, etc., to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection. Compare initiative (def 4a).
- refundment — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.