10-letter words containing n, t, m
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autonomist — a person desiring or advocating autonomy
- autonomous — An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- avengement — (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- avertiment — an advertisement
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- azomethine — (chemistry) any of a class of organic compounds of general formula RN=CR2.
- babblement — (obsolete) babble.
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- bandmaster — the conductor of a band
- banishment — Banishment is the act of banishing someone or the state of being banished.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- bee martin — kingbird.
- bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
- benthamism — the philosophy of utilitarianism as first expounded by Jeremy Bentham in terms of an action being good that has a greater tendency to augment the happiness of the community than to diminish it
- benumbment — the act of benumbing
- bestowment — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- betterment — The betterment of something is the act or process of improving its standard or status.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
- bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
- bituminize — to treat with or convert into bitumen
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- boehmenist — a supporter or adherent of Boehmenism.
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- 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.
- 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.
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
- calumniate — to slander
- cameration — vaulting
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.