10-letter words containing i, b, m
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- bring home — introduce to parents
- britishism — Briticism
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- brundisium — Brindisi
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- bumsucking — obsequious behaviour; toadying
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- 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.
- 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.
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
- chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
- chamberlin — ˈThomas Chrowder (ˈkraʊdər ) ; krouˈdər) 1843-1928; U.S. geologist
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cicisbeism — the practice of admiring a married woman
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
- climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- 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.
- comestible — food
- comic book — A comic book is a magazine that contains stories told in pictures.