10-letter words containing s, p, e, r, m
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- mckeesport — a city in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- membership — the state of being a member, as of a society or club.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mesomorphs — Plural form of mesomorph.
- mesomorphy — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesosphere — (in the classification of the earth's atmosphere by chemical properties) the region between the ionosphere and the exosphere, extending from about 250–650 miles (400–1050 km) above the surface of the earth.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- metroscope — an instrument for examining the cavity of the uterus.
- micropenis — (medical) An unusually small penis.
- micropores — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- misimprove — to make worse in trying to make better
- misperform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misreports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misreport.
- miter post — meeting post.
- monopteros — monopteron.
- monospermy — the fertilization of an ovum by only one spermatozoon.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nrem sleep — slow-wave sleep.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map