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10-letter words containing b, m

  • automobile — An automobile is a car.
  • babblement — (obsolete) babble.
  • babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
  • babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
  • bacillemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood.
  • backcombed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcomb.
  • backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
  • backmarker — a competitor who is at the back of a field in a race
  • backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
  • bacteremia — the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream
  • bacteremic — Of, pertaining to or having bacteremia.
  • baculiform — shaped like a rod
  • bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
  • badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
  • bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
  • baggageman — (US) a railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
  • bain-marie — a vessel for holding hot water, in which sauces and other dishes are gently cooked or kept warm
  • ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
  • balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
  • balsamical — Alternative form of balsamic.
  • bamboozled — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
  • bamboozler — to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed by into): They bamboozled us into joining the club. Synonyms: gyp, dupe, trick, cheat, swindle, defraud, flimflam, hoax, gull, rook; delude, mislead, fool.
  • 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.
  • bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
  • bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
  • baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
  • bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
  • barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
  • 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.
  • barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • barometers — Plural form of barometer.
  • barometric — Barometric pressure is the atmospheric pressure that is shown by a barometer.
  • barotrauma — an injury caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, esp to the eardrums or lungs
  • barramunda — the edible Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, having paddle-like fins and a long body covered with large scales
  • barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
  • 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
  • batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
  • batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
  • bathometer — an instrument for measuring the depth of water
  • bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
  • bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
  • battements — Plural form of battement.
  • battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
  • battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
  • baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
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