10-letter words containing m, r
- black gram — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus mungo, whose seeds are used as food in India
- black mark — A black mark against someone is something bad that they have done or a bad quality that they have which affects the way people think about them.
- blackamoor — a Black African or other person with dark skin
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- bloomsbury — a district of central London in the borough of Camden: contains the British Museum, part of the University of London, and many publishers' offices
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- 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.
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
- bomb aimer — a person whose job is to aim a bomb to be dropped from an aircraft
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- bookmarked — a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place.
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
- borer bomb — a device that emits pesticide fumes
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- 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
- brahmaloka — the highest part of Kamaloka, where refined souls exist in blissful contemplation of Brahma.
- brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
- brahminism — Brahmanism
- 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).
- brain stem — the portion of the brain that is continuous with the spinal cord and comprises the medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain, and parts of the hypothalamus, functioning in the control of reflexes and such essential internal mechanisms as respiration and heartbeat.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- 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.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- bread mold — any of an order (Mucorales, esp. Rhizopus nigricans) of fungi often found on decaying vegetable matter or bread