10-letter words containing o, r, s, m
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- barometers — Plural form of barometer.
- 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.
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- bettermost — best
- biometrics — that branch of biology which deals with its data statistically and by mathematical analysis
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- 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
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- 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.
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- 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.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bravissimo — very well done! excellent!
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- camcorders — Plural form of camcorder.
- camorrista — a member of a camorra
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- carambolas — Plural form of carambola.
- carcinomas — Plural form of carcinoma.
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cartograms — Plural form of cartogram.
- centermost — Alternative form of centremost.
- centremost — Closest to the centre.
- centrosome — a small body in a cell where microtubules are produced. In animal cells it surrounds the centriole
- ceremonies — Plural form of ceremony.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- checkrooms — Plural form of checkroom.
- chelmsford — a city in SE England, administrative centre of Essex: electronics, retail; university (1992). Pop: 99 962 (2001)
- chernozems — Plural form of chernozem.
- chloralism — a medical condition created by prolonged use of chloral hydrate
- chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
- choriambus — choriamb.