10-letter words containing m, u, s, e, d
- mucedinous — of or resembling mold or mildew.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mud stream — mudflow.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- multisided — Having multiple sides.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- multitudes — Plural form of multitude.
- muscadelle — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- muscadines — Plural form of muscadine.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- mussel bed — an area on the sea bed where mussels are bred
- muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
- mutualised — Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise.
- nude mouse — a virtually hairless mutant laboratory-bred mouse having a major immune system deficiency caused by a lack of T cells, and able to accept grafts of foreign tissue.
- numskulled — Alternative form of numbskulled.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- oedematous — (British spelling) Alternative form of edematous.
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- seducement — an act of seducing
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stomodaeum — stomodeum.
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- 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.