10-letter words containing b, a, s, m
- embrasures — Plural form of embrasure.
- embrocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrocate.
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
- esteemable — Worthy of esteem; estimable.
- framboesia — yaws.
- gamba stop — an organ stop with a tone resembling that of stringed instruments
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- halberstam — David, 1934–2007, U.S. writer.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- high beams — vehicle's strongest headlights
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- ibm 370esa — (computer, IBM) (Enterprise System Architecture) An IBM mainframe computer introduced in 1988. Successor to the IBM 370XA had enhanced access registers that allowed access to other forms of virtual memory. This enhancement allowed more data storage in main and virtual memory, reducing I/O operating and improving speed and efficiency. The IBM 370ESA was rebranded as the IBM390, and later as the zSeries.
- imbricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbricate.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- impassable — not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc.: Heavy snow made the roads impassable.
- impassably — In an impassable manner.
- impassible — incapable of suffering pain.
- impassibly — In an impassible manner.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jebel musa — a mountain in NW Morocco, opposite Gibraltar: one of the Pillars of Hercules. 2775 feet (846 meters).
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lamebrains — Plural form of lamebrain.
- laser beam — a beam of radiation produced from a laser, used in surgery, communications, weapons systems, printing, recording and various industrial processes.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- lesbianism — homosexual relations between women.
- liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- like lambs — If you say that people do something like lambs or like lambs to the slaughter, you mean that they do what someone wants them to do without complaining or fighting.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- maasbanker — (South Africa) A species of edible mackerel, Trachurus trachurus.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- malmesbury — William of, William of Malmesbury.
- mama's boy — a boy or man showing excessive attachment to or dependence on his mother.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- marabuntas — Plural form of marabunta.
- marbleizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marbleize.
- mars brown — a medium brown color.