10-letter words containing s, m
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- dust mouse — a dust ball.
- dust storm — a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm).
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamitism — The work of dynamiters.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysphemism — the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dysthymiac — a person who is affected with dysthymia
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- east timor — a small country in SE Asia, comprising part of the island of Timor: colonized by Portugal in the 19th century; declared independence in 1975 but immediately invaded by Indonesia; under UN administration from 1999 and an independent state from 2002. It is mountainous with a monsoon climate; subsistence agriculture is the main occupation. Languages: Portuguese, Tetun (a lingua franca), and Bahasa Indonesia. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: Dili. Pop: 1 172 390 (2013 est). Area: 14 874 sq km (5743 sq miles)
- eastermost — (archaic) easternmost.
- easy money — money obtained with a minimum of effort.
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- ecchymoses — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecchymosis — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.
- economiser — Alternative form of economizer.
- economists — Plural form of economist.
- economizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of economize.
- ecosystems — a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
- ecotourism — tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- eczematous — an inflammatory condition of the skin attended with itching and the exudation of serous matter.
- edmundston — a city in NW New Brunswick, in SE Canada, on the upper part of the St. John River.
- egas moniz — Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire. 1874–1955, Portuguese neurologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1949) with Walter Hess for their development of prefrontal leucotomy
- egomaniacs — Plural form of egomaniac.
- ejectments — Plural form of ejectment.
- el mansûra — a city in NE Egypt: scene of a battle (1250) in which the Crusaders were defeated by the Mamelukes and Louis IX of France was captured; cotton-manufacturing centre. Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
- elasmosaur — a very long-necked extinct marine reptile: a type of plesiosaur
- elastomers — Plural form of elastomer.
- elementals — Plural form of elemental.
- eliminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eliminate.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
- emanations — Plural form of emanation.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- emasculate — Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embasement — abasement
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- embayments — Plural form of embayment.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emberizids — Plural form of emberizid.
- embezzlers — Plural form of embezzler.
- emblements — Plural form of emblement.