10-letter words containing m, u, d, t
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documented — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- domestique — Cycling. a member of a bicycle-racing team who assists the leader, as by setting a pace, preventing breakaways by other teams, or supplying food during a race.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- dramaturge — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.
- dramaturgy — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- dust mouse — a dust ball.
- dust storm — a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm).
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- edmundston — a city in NW New Brunswick, in SE Canada, on the upper part of the St. John River.
- edumacated — Simple past tense and past participle of edumacate.
- emaculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emaculate.
- endurement — (obsolete) endurance.
- enumerated — Simple past tense and past participle of enumerate.
- eudiometer — A graduated glass tube in which mixtures of gases can be made to react by an electric spark, used to measure changes in volume of gases during chemical reactions.
- eudiometry — (chemistry, dated) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- fulminated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulminate.
- fundaments — Plural form of fundament.
- fundectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- haut monde — high society.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humidities — Plural form of humidity.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- impictured — painted
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- impostumed — having an abscess
- impudently — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- impudicity — immodesty.
- inducement — the act of inducing.
- indumentum — a dense, hairy covering.
- intumesced — Simple past tense and past participle of intumesce.
- judgements — an act or instance of judging.
- judgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- kettledrum — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.