10-letter words containing u, m, i, a
- fumatorium — an airtight structure in which plants are fumigated to destroy fungi or insects.
- fumigating — Present participle of fumigate.
- fumigation — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- gadolinium — a rare-earth metallic element. Symbol: Gd; atomic weight: 157.25; atomic number: 64.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- gaminesque — resembling or typical of a gamin or gamine; impish, mischievous
- glamouring — Present participle of glamour.
- glamourise — to make glamorous.
- glamourize — to make glamorous.
- glutaminic — derived from glutamine
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- gradualism — the principle or policy of achieving some goal by gradual steps rather than by drastic change.
- graecismus — (rhetoric, historical) Use of Greek words and examples.
- gramineous — grasslike.
- grund mail — payment for the right to be buried
- guestimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
- gum guaiac — guaiac.
- gymnasiums — Plural form of gymnasium.
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- 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).
- 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.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- hu han-min — 1879–1936, Chinese nationalist revolutionary.
- 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.
- 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.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- illuminant — an illuminating agent or material.
- illuminary — Illuminative.
- illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
- illuminati — People claiming to possess special enlightenment or knowledge of something.
- image tube — an electron tube that receives a pattern of radiation, as infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray, on a photosensitive surface and reproduces the pattern on a fluorescent screen.