10-letter words containing a, m, b, s
- bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
- balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
- balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
- 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.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
- barometers — Plural form of barometer.
- base metal — A base metal is a metal such as copper, zinc, tin, or lead that is not a precious metal.
- basmitzvah — in the Jewish religion, a girl attaining the age (usuALLU 12) of religious responsibility
- bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
- batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
- beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
- beefmaster — one of a breed of fast-growing beef cattle of the western U.S., tolerant of humidity, heat, and insects, developed by crossbreeding Brahman, Hereford, and Shorthorn stock.
- beetmaster — a help in need
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- black mass — a blasphemous travesty of the Christian Mass, performed by practitioners of black magic
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blast lamp — a torch or lamp, as a blowtorch or a lamp for lampworking, in which the flame is fed by an air or oxygen blast.
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bomb blast — the impact caused by a bomb
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- bonamiasis — a disease affecting oysters, caused by the parasite Bonamia ostreae
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.