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10-letter words containing u, s, a, m

  • plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
  • pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
  • polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
  • pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
  • possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
  • postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
  • postulatum — a postulate
  • pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
  • premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
  • presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • qualmishly — In a qualmish manner.
  • quantasome — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
  • quitclaims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitclaim.
  • quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
  • race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
  • ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
  • rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
  • romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
  • ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
  • rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
  • salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • san manuel — a town in S Arizona.
  • san miguel — a city in E El Salvador.
  • sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
  • sanitarium — an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.
  • sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
  • sao miguel — the largest island of the Azores. 150,000. 288 sq. mi. (746 sq. km).
  • scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
  • schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
  • scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
  • scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
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