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

  • musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
  • muscularly — In a muscular manner.
  • mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
  • music case — a kind of briefcase for carrying sheet music
  • music hall — an auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
  • musicalise — (British spelling) To set (a text etc) to music.
  • musicality — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
  • musicalize — to write or produce a musical version of (a book, play, etc.): an attempt to musicalize one of Shakespeare's comedies.
  • musicianer — (slang) musician.
  • musicianly — In the manner of a musician.
  • musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
  • muslim era — the period since the flight of Muhammad from Mecca in a.d. 622; Hijra.
  • musophobia — Fear of mice.
  • mustachios — A long or elaborate mustache.
  • muster day — the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.
  • mutessarif — an administrator or governor of a sanjak or province in the former Ottoman Empire
  • mutualised — Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise.
  • mutualists — Plural form of mutualist.
  • mutualness — The property of being mutual; mutuality.
  • myrtaceous — belonging to the Myrtaceae, the myrtle family of plants. Compare myrtle family.
  • mystagogue — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
  • myxomatous — a soft tumor composed of connective and mucoid tissue.
  • nasturtium — any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers.
  • naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.
  • neurinomas — Plural form of neurinoma.
  • neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
  • neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
  • nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
  • nonmusical — not belonging to or relating to music
  • nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
  • numerators — Plural form of numerator.
  • numismatic — of, relating to, or consisting of coins, medals, paper money, etc.
  • nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
  • nurseryman — a person who owns or conducts a plant nursery.
  • octamerous — consisting of or divided into eight parts.
  • oedematous — (British spelling) Alternative form of edematous.
  • off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
  • omniparous — producing or generating all things
  • omnisexual — pansexual (def 2).
  • omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
  • oogamously — by means of oogamy
  • opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • outmatches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmatch.
  • outmeasure — to measure out
  • outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
  • palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
  • palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
  • paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
  • part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
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