10-letter words containing u, a, m
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- macrofauna — any animals visible to the naked eye
- maculating — Present participle of maculate.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- maculature — (dated) Blotting paper.
- magnitudes — Plural form of magnitude.
- mail truck — a large vehicle that is used to transport letters, packages, etc, by road
- major suit — hearts or spades, especially with reference to their higher point values.
- majusculae — Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
- majuscular — (of letters) uppercase, capitalized.
- majuscules — Plural form of majuscule.
- make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- making out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- malaguetta — an aromatic African herb of the ginger family
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malgré lui — in spite of himself
- mallemucks — Plural form of mallemuck.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- malt sugar — maltose
- malt-sugar — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- malvaceous — belonging to the Malvaceae, the mallow family of plants.
- man-minute — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work accomplished by one person in a minute.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandamuses — Plural form of mandamus.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- maneuvered — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuverer — One who maneuvers.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- manhunting — Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- manichaeus — Mani