10-letter words containing am
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- 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.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
- bonamiasis — a disease affecting oysters, caused by the parasite Bonamia ostreae
- bonne amie — a good female friend.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- brand name — The brand name of a product is the name the manufacturer gives it and under which it is sold.
- brand-name — having or being a brand name: nationally known brand-name food products.
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- brogrammer — a male computer programmer who is characterized as a bro: Brogrammers challenge the geek/nerd stereotype.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- call names — to speak of or to in an abusive manner
- camarasaur — a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
- camarillas — Plural form of camarilla.
- camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
- camcorders — Plural form of camcorder.
- camel case — the convention of writing compound words or phrases with no spaces and an initial lowercase or uppercase letter, with each remaining word element beginning with an uppercase letter: iPod and WikiAnswers are both spelled in camel case.
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelopard — giraffe
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameltoe's — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- cameo ware — jasper ware with applied decoration of classical motifs, resembling a cameo
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameration — vaulting
- camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.