10-letter words containing h, s, a, m
- mastopathy — any disease of the breast.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matchstick — a short, slender piece of flammable wood used in making matches.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matriarchs — A woman who is the head of a family or tribe.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- mattathias — died 167? b.c, Jewish priest in Judea (father of Judas Maccabaeus).
- 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.
- mechanised — to make mechanical.
- mechanisms — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanists — Plural form of mechanist.
- mechanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mechanize.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- medusahead — A type of bristly grass native to Europe.
- meerschaum — a mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, H 4 Mg 2 Si 3 O 1 0 , occurring in white, claylike masses, used for ornamental carvings, for pipe bowls, etc.; sepiolite.
- megadeaths — Plural form of megadeath.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megatheres — Plural form of megathere.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- melchiades — Saint, died a.d. 314, pope 310–314.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- 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.
- metaethics — the philosophy of ethics dealing with the meaning of ethical terms, the nature of moral discourse, and the foundations of moral principles.
- metahumans — Plural form of metahuman.
- metalsmith — a person skilled in making articles of metal.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- metaphysis — (anatomy) The part of a long bone that grows during development.
- metatheses — Plural form of metathesis.
- metathesis — the transposition of letters, syllables, or sounds in a word, as in the pronunciation [kuhmf-ter-buh l] /ˈkʌmf tər bəl/ (Show IPA) for comfortable or [aks] /æks/ (Show IPA) for ask.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.
- methylates — Plural form of methylate.
- michaelmas — a festival celebrated on September 29 in honor of the archangel Michael.
- mid-mashie — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a midiron but less slope than a mashie iron.
- midshipman — a student, as at the U.S. Naval Academy, in training for commission as ensign in the Navy or second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Compare cadet (def 2).
- milk shake — a frothy drink made of cold milk, flavoring, and usually ice cream, shaken together or blended in a mixer.
- milkshakes — Plural form of milkshake.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misbehaved — Simple past tense and past participle of misbehave.
- misbehaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbehave.
- miscanthus — any tall perennial bamboo-like grass of the genus Miscanthus, native from southern Africa to SE Asia and cultivated for ornament in temperate regions