10-letter words containing m, i, s, a, t
- estaminets — Plural form of estaminet.
- estimating — Present participle of estimate.
- estimation — A rough calculation of the value, number, quantity, or extent of something.
- estimative — Of or pertaining to an estimate or to estimation.
- estimators — Plural form of estimator.
- eternalism — (philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- familistic — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- famishment — Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fauxminist — a person who makes an insincere pretence of feminism
- favoritism — the favoring of one person or group over others with equal claims; partiality: to show favoritism toward the youngest child.
- firemaster — (Scotland) The chief of a fire brigade.
- firmaments — Plural form of firmament.
- first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- first name — given or Christian name
- first-name — of or relating to one's first, or given, name; familiar; intimate: They were on a first-name basis soon after meeting.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- galimatias — confused or unintelligible talk.
- germinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of germinate.
- gestaltism — Gestalt psychology
- grammatist — (historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
- guestimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- gymnasiast — a student in a gymnasium.
- gymnastics — (used with a plural verb) gymnastic exercises.
- gynostemia — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- haematosis — Alternative form of hematosis.
- hailstorms — Plural form of hailstorm.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- harmonists — Plural form of harmonist.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- heathenism — a belief or practice of heathens; idolatry.
- heidenstam — Verner von [ver-nuh r fawn] /ˈvɛr nər fɔn/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, Swedish poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1916.
- hemostasis — the stoppage of bleeding.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hermitages — Plural form of hermitage.
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- histamines — Plural form of histamine.
- histaminic — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.