10-letter words containing u, m, i, a
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- autotomise — Alt form autotomize.
- autotomize — to cause (a part of the body) to undergo autotomy
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- calumniate — to slander
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- cimicifuga — Any member of the genus Cimicifuga of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- circumoral — Around or encircling the mouth.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.
- communital — a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
- communitas — the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.
- coumarilic — coumaric
- councilman — A councilman is a man who is a member of a local council.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- culminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate.
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.