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10-letter words containing m, u

  • bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
  • 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)
  • blue mould — any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
  • bombed out — destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.
  • bombed-out — A bombed-out building has been damaged or destroyed by a bomb.
  • 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.
  • booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
  • bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
  • bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • 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
  • box column — a hollow wooden column, as for a porch, usually having a rectangular cross section.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
  • bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
  • 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)
  • buckjumper — an untamed horse
  • bull moose — a member of the Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912
  • bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
  • 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
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