10-letter words containing t, m, a
- battements — Plural form of battement.
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- battlesome — argumentative; quarrelsome.
- 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
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
- bee martin — kingbird.
- beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
- 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
- bell metal — an alloy of copper and tin, with some zinc and lead, used in casting bells
- 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
- bestialism — the state of beasts
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bichromate — dichromate
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- bimetallic — consisting of two metals
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- 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 stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blast lamp — a torch or lamp, as a blowtorch or a lamp for lampworking, in which the flame is fed by an air or oxygen blast.
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bomb blast — the impact caused by a bomb
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- 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.
- brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- 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
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- 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)
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cacomistle — a catlike omnivorous mammal, Bassariscus astutus, of S North America, related to but smaller than the raccoons: family Procyonidae, order Carnivora (carnivores). It has yellowish-grey fur and a long bushy tail banded in black and white
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium