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10-letter words containing r, a, m

  • barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
  • bare metal — 1. New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new computer. Real bare-metal programming involves things like building boot PROMs and BIOS chips, implementing basic monitors used to test device drivers, and writing the assemblers that will be used to write the compiler back ends that will give the new computer a real development environment. 2. "Programming on the bare metal" is also used to describe a style of hand-hacking that relies on bit-level peculiarities of a particular hardware design, especially tricks for speed and space optimisation that rely on crocks such as overlapping instructions (or, as in the famous case described in The Story of Mel, interleaving of opcodes on a magnetic drum to minimise fetch delays due to the device's rotational latency). This sort of thing has become less common as the relative costs of programming time and computer resources have changed, but is still found in heavily constrained environments such as industrial embedded systems, and in the code of hackers who just can't let go of that low-level control. See Real Programmer. In the world of personal computing, bare metal programming is often considered a Good Thing, or at least a necessary evil (because these computers have often been sufficiently slow and poorly designed to make it necessary; see ill-behaved). There, the term usually refers to bypassing the BIOS or OS interface and writing the application to directly access device registers and computer addresses. "To get 19.2 kilobaud on the serial port, you need to get down to the bare metal." People who can do this sort of thing well are held in high regard.
  • barium 140 — the radioactive isotope of barium having a mass number of 140 and a half-life of 12.8 days, used chiefly as a tracer.
  • barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
  • barometers — Plural form of barometer.
  • barometric — Barometric pressure is the atmospheric pressure that is shown by a barometer.
  • barotrauma — an injury caused by changes in atmospheric pressure, esp to the eardrums or lungs
  • 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
  • bathometer — an instrument for measuring the depth of water
  • bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
  • bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
  • baumeister — Willi [vil-ee] /ˈvɪl i/ (Show IPA), 1889–1955, German painter.
  • baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
  • beach berm — berm (def 3).
  • beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
  • beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
  • beam reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
  • beamformer — The device used to accomplish beamforming.
  • 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.
  • bee martin — kingbird.
  • beefmaster — one of a breed of fast-growing beef cattle of the western U.S., tolerant of humidity, heat, and insects, developed by crossbreeding Brahman, Hereford, and Shorthorn stock.
  • beetmaster — a help in need
  • bellarmine — Saint Robert. 1542–1621, Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal; an important influence during the Counter-Reformation
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • bichromate — dichromate
  • bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • birmingham — an industrial city in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, in the West Midlands: the second largest city in Great Britain; two cathedrals; three universities (1900, 1966, 1992). Pop: 970 892 (2001)
  • birth name — the surname given a person at birth.
  • bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
  • 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
  • blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
  • 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.
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