10-letter words containing n, e, m, u
- 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.
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- spumescent — foamy; foamlike; frothy.
- stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- subduement — the act or process of subduing
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subelement — a component or constituent of a whole or one of the parts into which a whole may be resolved by analysis: Bricks and mortar are elements of every masonry wall.
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- submariner — a member of the crew of a submarine.
- submarines — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- submersion — to submerge.
- submontane — under or beneath a mountain or mountains.
- subsegment — a part or division of a segment.
- suleiman i — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sun helmet — a rigid hat worn in tropical climates, mainly in the past
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supplement — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface
- surinamese — a native or inhabitant of Suriname.
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- tablemount — guyot
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tannenbaum — a Christmas tree.
- tant mieux — so much the better
- technetium — Chemistry. an element of the manganese family, not found in nature, but obtained in the fission of uranium or by the bombardment of molybdenum. Symbol: Tc; atomic weight: 99; atomic number: 43; specific gravity: 11.5.
- tegumental — a covering or vestment; integument.
- temulently — in a drunken manner
- tentaculum — a tentacle
- the minute — If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
- theonomous — the state of an individual or society that regards its own nature and norms as being in accord with the divine nature.
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
- tremendous — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumescence — swelling; slightly tumid.
- tumorgenic — producing tumours
- ubermensch — superman (def 2).
- ugsomeness — the quality of being loathsome or horrible
- un-made-up — not wearing make-up
- unacademic — not academic or at an academic level
- unadmitted — having been denied entry
- unaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- unamenable — ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
- unamicable — characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.