10-letter words containing a, b, e, m
- arboretums — Plural form of arboretum.
- arbutamine — Lb pharmaceutical drug A cardiac stimulant drug.
- assemblage — An assemblage of people or things is a collection of them.
- assemblers — Plural form of assembler.
- assemblies — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- autojumble — a sale of second-hand car parts, esp for car enthusiasts
- automobile — An automobile is a car.
- babblement — (obsolete) babble.
- babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- bacillemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood.
- backcombed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcomb.
- backmarker — a competitor who is at the back of a field in a race
- bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
- bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- baggageman — (US) a railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
- bain-marie — a vessel for holding hot water, in which sauces and other dishes are gently cooked or kept warm
- ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
- bamboozled — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
- bamboozler — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
- bamboozles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bamboozle.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barometers — Plural form of barometer.
- barometric — Barometric pressure is the atmospheric pressure that is shown by a barometer.
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
- bathometer — an instrument for measuring the depth of water
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- be made up — to be very happy about something
- beach berm — berm (def 3).
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.