10-letter words containing a, l, m, t, e
- assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
- assimulate — (obsolete) To assimilate.
- assoilment — the state or act of forgiveness or deliverance from transgression or denunciation
- astrobleme — a mark on the earth's surface, usually circular, formed by a large ancient meteorite impact
- atramental — of or relating to ink
- autojumble — a sale of second-hand car parts, esp for car enthusiasts
- automobile — An automobile is a car.
- babblement — (obsolete) babble.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- 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.
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
- bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- cacomistle — a catlike omnivorous mammal, Bassariscus astutus, of S North America, related to but smaller than the raccoons: family Procyonidae, order Carnivora (carnivores). It has yellowish-grey fur and a long bushy tail banded in black and white
- cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
- calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
- calumniate — to slander
- cameltoe's — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- catamenial — Of or relating to the menses or menstruation.
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cemeterial — of or relating to a cemetery or to burial.
- centesimal — hundredth
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- cheltenham — a town in W England, in central Gloucestershire: famous for its schools, racecourse, and saline springs (discovered in 1716). Pop: 98 875 (2001)
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- classmates — Plural form of classmate.
- clematises — Plural form of clematis.
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.