10-letter words containing m, u, s, h
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humoresque — a musical composition of humorous or capricious character.
- humoristic — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorously — characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- humoursome — (archaic) Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
- huntmaster — (chiefly, fantasy) The leader of a hunt.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hylotomous — (of insects) wood-cutting or wood-boring
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- loudmouths — Plural form of loudmouth.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manichaeus — Mani
- masherbrum — a mountain in N India, in the Himalayas. 25,660 feet (7821 meters).
- mast house — a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- mediumship — The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- medusahead — A type of bristly grass native to Europe.
- meerschaum — a mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, H 4 Mg 2 Si 3 O 1 0 , occurring in white, claylike masses, used for ornamental carvings, for pipe bowls, etc.; sepiolite.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- meshugeneh — meshuga
- mesohippus — any of a group of prehistoric horselike animals of the genus Mesohippus, which had three toes and which lived during the Oligocene epoch
- metahumans — Plural form of metahuman.
- methuselah — a patriarch who lived 969 years. Gen. 5:27.
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- miscanthus — any tall perennial bamboo-like grass of the genus Miscanthus, native from southern Africa to SE Asia and cultivated for ornament in temperate regions
- mischivous — Obsolete spelling of mischievous.
- misthought — to think incorrectly or unfavorably.
- monanthous — bearing one flower.
- mouse-hole — the burrow of a mouse.
- moustached — Having moustache.
- moustaches — Plural form of moustache.
- moustachio — Alternative spelling of mustachio.