10-letter words containing m, i, s, t, a, e
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nightmares — Plural form of nightmare.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- reestimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- remediates — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- retransmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- retreatism — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- ringmaster — a person in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
- salt mines — Dense quarters housing large numbers of programmers working long hours on grungy projects, with some hope of seeing the end of the tunnel in N years. Noted for their absence of sunshine. Compare playpen, sandbox.
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- sedimental — of, relating to, or of the nature of sediment.
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semblative — resembling
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- semilethal — a semilethal gene
- semination — a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- signalment — a detailed description, especially of distinctive features, of a person for identification, usually for police purposes.
- similative — implying likeness
- simulative — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).