10-letter words containing m, a, u, s
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- humaneness — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- 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.
- 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.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- 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
- 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.
- immeasured — immeasurable
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- impuissant — lacking strength; feeble; weak.
- in summary — to sum up, to conclude
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- insularism — of or relating to an island or islands: insular possessions.
- insulinoma — a benign tumor of the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas that may produce signs of hypoglycemia.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jebel musa — a mountain in NW Morocco, opposite Gibraltar: one of the Pillars of Hercules. 2775 feet (846 meters).
- journalism — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- jump spark — spark1 (def 2).
- jump-start — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- jumpstarts — Plural form of jumpstart.
- kama sutra — a Hindu religious treatise written c. a.d. 400, that deals with pleasure, love, and sexuality