10-letter words containing h, a, m, u
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanizing — Present participle of humanize.
- humblebrag — a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- humectants — Plural form of humectant.
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- huntmaster — (chiefly, fantasy) The leader of a hunt.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- infrahuman — less than human; subhuman.
- inhumanely — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumanity — the state or quality of being inhuman or inhumane; cruelty.
- inhumation — to bury; inter.
- interhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- kahanamoku — Duke Paoa [pah-oh-ah] /pɑˈoʊ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1968, U.S. swimmer and surfer.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- khitmutgar — (in India) a waiter.
- kumbh mela — a Hindu festival held once every twelve years in one of four sacred sites, where bathing for purification from sin is considered especially efficacious
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- low fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- 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)
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- 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.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manhunting — Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- manichaeus — Mani