10-letter words containing o, a, s, t
- lovastatin — a drug, C 24 H 36 O 8 , that reduces the levels of fats in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
- maelstroms — Plural form of maelstrom.
- magnetrons — Plural form of magnetron.
- main store — main memory
- maisonette — a small house, especially one connected to a large apartment building.
- major suit — hearts or spades, especially with reference to their higher point values.
- majorettes — Plural form of majorette.
- majorities — Plural form of majority.
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- mangosteen — the juicy, edible fruit of an East Indian tree, Garcinia mangostana.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- manometers — Plural form of manometer.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- masochists — Plural form of masochist.
- mason city — a city in N Iowa.
- mass ratio — the ratio of the mass of a fully-fuelled rocket at liftoff to the mass of the rocket without fuel
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- mast house — a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.
- mastectomy — the operation of removing all or part of the breast or mamma.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- masterwort — a European plant, Astrantia major, of the parsley family, having pinkish-rose or white flower clusters with purplish bracts beneath.
- masticator — Someone who masticates.
- mastodonic — a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
- mastodynia — (medicine) mastalgia; pain in the breast.
- mastopathy — any disease of the breast.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matosinhos — a port in N Portugal, on the estuary of the Leça River north of Oporto: fishing industry. Pop: 167 026 (2001)
- matriotism — Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
- matte shot — a shot in which parts of the background and sometimes the foreground are masked so that a different background, foreground, image, etc., can be substituted during printing.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- megastores — Plural form of megastore.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- mesoblasts — Plural form of mesoblast.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesothelia — Plural form of mesothelium.