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10-letter words containing a, l, t, m

  • ambulatory — of, relating to, or designed for walking
  • ameliorant — a thing that ameliorates
  • ameliorate — If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
  • ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
  • ametabolic — (of certain insects) having no obvious metamorphosis
  • amiability — Amiability is the quality of being friendly and pleasant.
  • aminoplast — amino resin.
  • ampholytic — capable of ionizing into both anions and cations; amphoteric.
  • ampliation — an extension or addition to what is already known
  • ampliative — serving to extend or add to what is already known
  • amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
  • amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
  • amygdalate — relating to, having, or bearing almonds
  • amyloplast — a non-pigmented granule in a plant cell which stores amylopectin
  • anatomical — Anatomical means relating to the structure of the bodies of people and animals.
  • anglesmith — a blacksmith skilled in forging angle irons, beams, etc., into various forms used in shipbuilding.
  • animal fat — any fat obtained from animals
  • animalists — Plural form of animalist.
  • animatedly — full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty.
  • antebellum — of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War
  • antemedial — Lb entomology Situated before (i.e. closer to the head than) the middle of the thorax or wing.
  • anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
  • antifamily — opposed to the family unit
  • antifemale — opposed to or discriminating against women
  • antihelium — the antimatter counterpart to helium.
  • antilogism — a group of three inconsistent propositions, two of which are premises of a syllogism that contradict the third.
  • antimonial — of or containing antimony
  • aplanatism — the state of being free from spherical aberration
  • argumental — That is based on arguments. Pertaining to arguments.
  • aromatical — (rare) aromatic.
  • assailment — to attack vigorously or violently; assault.
  • 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
  • asystolism — the indications or symptoms which are representative of asystole
  • atmologist — a person who studies or is expert in atmology or the study of aqueous vapour
  • atomically — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
  • atramental — of or relating to ink
  • autojumble — a sale of second-hand car parts, esp for car enthusiasts
  • automobile — An automobile is a car.
  • autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
  • 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
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