10-letter words containing m, u, d
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiliquid — having a thick consistency between liquid and solid
- seminudity — partial nudity; the state of being partly nude
- similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- smoked out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- sound film — a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
- speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
- speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- squad room — a room in a police station where police officers assemble, as for inspection, roll call, or duty assignments.
- stamp duty — land tax
- stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- steel drum — Music. a bowl-shaped percussion instrument common in the West Indies, made from a steel barrel divided into sections producing different notes when struck.
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- stichidium — a podlike branch containing tetraspores, found in some rose algae
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stomodaeum — stomodeum.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- study room — a room, esp in a boarding school, used for studying
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- subkingdom — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- summerised — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summerized — to prepare (a house, car, etc.) so as to counteract the hot weather of summer: to summerize a house by adding air conditioning.
- summertide — summer time
- summerwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by compact, thick-walled cells, formed during the later part of the growing season.
- supermodel — an extremely prominent and successful model who can command very high fees.
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- tamil nadu — a large state in S India: formerly a presidency; boundaries readjusted on a linguistic basis 1956. 50,216 sq. mi. (130,058 sq. km). Capital: Chennai.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- thrum-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens
- time study — time and motion study.
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- tremendous — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- trivandrum — a city in and the capital of Kerala state, in S India: Vishnu pilgrimage center.
- trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
- trumped up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumped-up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.