10-letter words containing m, i, s, c
- hemicycles — Plural form of hemicycle.
- hemisected — Simple past tense and past participle of hemisect.
- hemistichs — Plural form of hemistich.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- heresimach — a person engaged in combating heresy and heretics.
- 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.
- homiletics — the art of preaching; the branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons.
- homoecious — designating or of parasites that spend their entire life cycle on one species of host
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humicolous — of or relating to organisms that live in or on soil.
- humoristic — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- iconoclasm — the action or spirit of iconoclasts.
- imbricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbricate.
- immiscible — not miscible; incapable of being mixed.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- incasement — the act of encasing.
- incisiform — having the shape of an incisor tooth
- incommodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incommode.
- incomposed — (obsolete) disordered; disturbed.
- increments — Plural form of increment.
- incumbents — Plural form of incumbent.
- insomniacs — Plural form of insomniac.
- intimacies — Plural form of intimacy.
- intumesced — Simple past tense and past participle of intumesce.
- islamicist — a specialist in the study of Islam
- isochasmic — (of a line on a map) bounding areas of equal auroral frequency
- isocheimic — isocheimal
- isodynamic — pertaining to or characterized by equality of force, intensity, or the like.
- isometrics — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isomorphic — Biology. different in ancestry, but having the same form or appearance.
- isoseismic — noting or pertaining to equal intensity of earthquake shock.
- isothermic — occurring at constant temperature.
- jacksonism — the group of political principles or attitudes associated with Andrew Jackson.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kineticism — the quality or state of being kinetic.
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- limicolous — dwelling in mud or muddy regions.