10-letter words containing u, a, m
- autoformat — Lb transitive To cause the layout of (a document) to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
- autogamous — Botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy).
- autoimmune — Autoimmune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autojumble — a sale of second-hand car parts, esp for car enthusiasts
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automatics — Plural form of automatic.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- automation — the use of methods for controlling industrial processes automatically, esp by electronically controlled systems, often reducing manpower
- automatism — the state or quality of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action
- automatist — the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action.
- automative — Relating to automation.
- automatize — to make (a process, etc) automatic or (of a process, etc) to be made automatic
- automatons — Plural form of automaton.
- automatous — a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
- automobile — An automobile is a car.
- automotive — Automotive is used to refer to things relating to cars.
- 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
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- autotomise — Alt form autotomize.
- autotomize — to cause (a part of the body) to undergo autotomy
- autotomous — separating body parts in order to escape danger
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- be made up — to be very happy about something
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- beau monde — the world of fashion and society
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- bomb squad — a squad or force of police officers or others trained to disarm bombs and other explosive devices.
- 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.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- 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