10-letter words containing a, m, b, s
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
- brahminism — Brahmanism
- brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- carambolas — Plural form of carambola.
- castmember — A member of a theatrical cast.
- catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- customable — subject to customs
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- dumb-asses — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embasement — abasement
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- embayments — Plural form of embayment.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- embolismal — relating to embolism, being the insertion of one or more days into a calendar
- embossable — Capable of being embossed.
- embrangles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrangle.