10-letter words containing s, m, a, t
- matryoshka — Each of a set of brightly painted hollow wooden dolls of varying sizes, designed to nest inside one another.
- matsu-take — an edible fungus, Armillaria matsutake, of Japan.
- matsutakes — Plural form of matsutake.
- mattamores — Plural form of mattamore.
- mattathias — died 167? b.c, Jewish priest in Judea (father of Judas Maccabaeus).
- 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.
- matterless — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- mattresses — Plural form of mattress.
- matureness — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturities — Plural form of maturity.
- maupassant — (Henri René Albert) Guy de [ahn-ree ruh-ney al-ber gee duh] /ɑ̃ˈri rəˈneɪ alˈbɛr gi də/ (Show IPA), 1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- maxi-skirt — a long skirt or skirt part, as of a coat or dress, ending below the middle of the calf but above the ankle.
- maximalist — a person who favors a radical and immediate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or the completion of a program.
- means test — appraisal of sb's financial situation
- means-test — to subject (a person or a specific benefit) to a means test: The government proposes to means-test Medicare.
- meat hooks — the hands or fists
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- meatscreen — a metal screen placed behind meat that is being roasted in order to reflect the fire's heat
- mechanists — Plural form of mechanist.
- medallists — Plural form of medallist.
- media star — a person who is well-known because of frequent appearances in the mass media
- mediastina — Plural form of mediastinum.
- mediations — Plural form of mediation.
- mediatised — to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.
- medicaster — A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- megacities — Plural form of megacity.
- megadeaths — Plural form of megadeath.
- megastores — Plural form of megastore.
- megatheres — Plural form of megathere.
- megathrust — (geology) A sudden slip along a fault between a subducting and an overriding plate; results in a major earthquake.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- mendicants — Plural form of mendicant.
- menostaxis — an abnormally prolonged period of menstruation.
- menstruant — A woman who is menstruating.
- menstruate — to undergo menstruation.
- mercy seat — Bible: Golden covering on the Arc of Covenant
- mercy-seat — Bible. the gold covering on the ark of the covenant, regarded as the resting place of God. Ex. 25:17–22. the throne of God.
- 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.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metabiosis — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.