Words Containing: A,N,D,U,M,S

• Royal fern, osmund (of genus Osmunda)

• one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles

• someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse

• An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.

• A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.

• Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2).

• a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries