10-letter words containing u, m, r
- armourless — having no armour
- army group — the largest operational formation of military land forces, normally comprising two or more armies or army corps under a designated commander.
- army-issue — given to soldiers in order to help them carry out their duties
- arrow arum — a North American plant, Peltandra virginica, of wet areas, having large, arrow-shaped leaves and inconspicuous flowers enclosed in a narrow, pointed spathe.
- atracurium — a drug used to relax muscles
- atraumatic — (of a medical or surgical procedure) causing minimal tissue injury.
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- audiometer — an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the human ear
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditorium — An auditorium is the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits.
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- 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
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autoformat — Lb transitive To cause the layout of (a document) to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
- automakers — Plural form of automaker.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- 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
- 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
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- 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.
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- 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
- box number — A box number is a number used as an address, for example one given by a newspaper for replies to a private advertisement, or one used by an organization for the letters sent to it.
- 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
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- brundisium — Brindisi
- buckjumper — an untamed horse
- bum around — If you bum around, you go from place to place without any particular destination, either for enjoyment or because you have nothing else to do.
- bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- bumfreezer — any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
- 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
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burma road — the route extending from Lashio in Burma (now Myanmar) to Chongqing in China, which was used by the Allies during World War II to supply military equipment to Chiang Kai-shek's forces in China
- 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.