9-letter words containing a, m, b, s
- barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
- barmaster — (historical) A local judge among miners.
- barminess — the quality of being barmy; craziness
- barnstorm — When people such as politicians or performers barnstorm, they travel around the country making speeches or giving shows.
- base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
- basements — Plural form of basement.
- bashawism — the combined characteristics of a bashaw, esp haughtiness, imperiousness
- bashments — Plural form of bashment.
- bass drum — a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- beaminess — the quality of beaming
- beamishly — in a beamish manner; smilingly; radiantly
- bear arms — A person's right to bear arms is their right to own and use guns, as a means of defence.
- beaumaris — a resort in N Wales, on the island of Anglesey: 13th-century castle. Pop: 1513 (2001)
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- bemelmans — Ludwig [luhd-wig,, loo d-] /ˈlʌd wɪg,, ˈlʊd-/ (Show IPA), 1898–1962, U.S. humorous satirist and painter; born in Austria: author and illustrator of children's books.
- benjamins — hundred-dollar bills
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- besmeared — to smear all over; bedaub.
- besmearer — someone who besmears
- biomasses — Ecology. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
- bismillah — the words which preface all except one of the surahs of the Koran, used by Muslims as a blessing before eating or some other action
- bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
- blameless — Someone who is blameless has not done anything wrong.
- blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- blastemal — of or relating to blastema
- blastment — shrivelling up due to something in the air
- bloomsday — an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- body mass — the ratio of a person's weight to their height
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- bombasine — bombazine.
- bombaster — a person who stuffs or pads
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- bookmarks — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- botmaster — (chat) The owner of a bot.
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- brakesman — a pithead winch operator
- bran mash — a food for horses made with bran and hot water, and sometimes including carrots, molasses, apples, etc
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- brutalism — an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes