10-letter words containing u, a, m
- gum guaiac — guaiac.
- gum nebula — a large, almost circular, emission nebula in the constellation Vela and Puppis. Thought to be the remains of a supernova explosion 1 million years ago, it is estimated to lie 1300 light years away
- gun camera — an aircraft-mounted motion-picture camera recording the firing of all weapons on the gun-target line of the pilot.
- gymnasiums — Plural form of gymnasium.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- haemagogue — promoting the flow of blood
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammer out — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- harrumpher — (informal) One who complains or moralizes.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haut monde — high society.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- hu han-min — 1879–1936, Chinese nationalist revolutionary.
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- human race — humanity, humans as a species
- humaneness — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanizing — Present participle of humanize.
- humblebrag — a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- humectants — Plural form of humectant.
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.