10-letter words containing b, u, m
- number ten — Number Ten is often used to refer to 10 Downing Street, London, which is the official home of the British Prime Minister.
- number two — someone or something that is second in rank, order, or importance.
- numberable — a numeral or group of numerals.
- numberless — innumerable; countless; myriad.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- numbskulls — Plural form of numbskull.
- obambulate — (intransitive) To walk about, to wander aimlessly.
- omnibusses — (dated) Plural form of omnibus.
- on the bum — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- permutable — to alter; change.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).
- plumb rule — a device for determining perpendicularity, consisting of a narrow board with a plumb line and bob suspended from an upper edge.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- pre-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- quathlamba — Drakensberg.
- ramboesque — looking or behaving like, or characteristic of, Rambo, a fictional film character noted for his mindless brutality
- re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- recumbency — lying down; reclining; leaning.
- resubmerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- rumbullion — a drink of rum
- salbutamol — the international generic name for albuterol.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- semidouble — having more petals than those of a single flower but fewer than those of a double flower.
- semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumberous — sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
- somnambule — a person who sleepwalks
- speed bump — a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road or driveway to force vehicles to slow down.
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- stumblebum — a clumsy, second-rate prizefighter.
- sub-member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
- sub-number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles