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10-letter words containing b, u, m

  • bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
  • bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
  • bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
  • bumfreezer — any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
  • bump along — advance unevenly
  • 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
  • bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
  • bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
  • bumpy ride — experience: difficult
  • bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
  • bunglesome — characterized by bungling
  • burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
  • burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
  • burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
  • burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
  • 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.
  • bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
  • 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.
  • buttermere — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria, in the Lake District, southwest of Keswick. Length: 2 km (1.25 miles)
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
  • buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
  • by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
  • catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
  • cerebellum — The cerebellum is a part of the brain in humans and other mammals that controls the body's movements and balance.
  • 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
  • columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
  • columbines — Plural form of columbine.
  • comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
  • combusting — Present participle of combust.
  • combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
  • combustive — the act or process of burning.
  • combustors — Plural form of combustor.
  • come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
  • commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
  • computable — computability theory
  • consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
  • coquimbite — hydrated ferric sulphate found in certain rocks and in volcanic fumaroles
  • court tomb — a type of Neolithic trapezoidal burial mound having a semicircular forecourt at one end and bounded by large standing stones, common in the British Isles.
  • crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
  • crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
  • cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
  • cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
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