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10-letter words containing m, r, a, d

  • animadvert — to comment with strong criticism (upon); make censorious remarks (about)
  • antidromic — (of nerve fibres) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
  • antimodern — opposed to modern attitudes
  • archimedes — ?287–212 bc, Greek mathematician and physicist of Syracuse, noted for his work in geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics
  • arcimboldi — Giuseppe [juh-sep-ee;; Italian joo-zep-pe] /dʒəˈsɛp i;; Italian dʒuˈzɛp pɛ/ (Show IPA), 1527–93, Italian painter.
  • arcimboldo — Giuseppe. 1527–93, Italian painter, best remembered for painting grotesque figures composed of fruit, vegetables, and meat
  • armadillos — Plural form of armadillo.
  • armageddon — Armageddon is a terrible battle or war that some people think will lead to the total destruction of the world or the human race.
  • armor-clad — covered with armor
  • aromatized — Simple past tense and past participle of aromatize.
  • aside from — Aside from means the same as apart from. This form is more usual in American English.
  • astrodomes — Plural form of astrodome.
  • audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
  • audiometer — an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the human ear
  • audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
  • auditorium — An auditorium is the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits.
  • bad mester — a term for the devil, used when speaking to children
  • bandmaster — the conductor of a band
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • 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
  • bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
  • beard moss — any of several green or yellow lichens of the genus Usnea, having long, threadlike stems in a tangled mass typically hanging from tree branches, and growing in a wide range of habitats from tropical zones to the Arctic.
  • beard worm — pogonophoran.
  • beaver dam — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
  • bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
  • blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
  • board game — A board game is a game such as chess or backgammon, which people play by moving small objects around on a board.
  • body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
  • bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
  • bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
  • bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
  • bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
  • brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
  • brand name — The brand name of a product is the name the manufacturer gives it and under which it is sold.
  • brand-name — having or being a brand name: nationally known brand-name food products.
  • bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
  • broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
  • broad-jump — long-jump.
  • brood mare — a mare kept for breeding purposes
  • 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.
  • 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
  • caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
  • calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
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