10-letter words that end in m
- black gram — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus mungo, whose seeds are used as food in India
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- boehmenism — the mystical doctrines or conceptions of Jakob Böhme.
- boko haram — a militant and violent Islamic organization established in NE Nigeria in 2002 and also active in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon
- bolshevism — Bolshevism is the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- 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
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brahmanism — the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism, characterized by diversified pantheism, the caste system, and the sacrifices and family ceremonies of Hindu tradition
- brahminism — Brahmanism
- 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.
- brake drum — the cast-iron drum attached to the hub of a wheel of a motor vehicle fitted with drum brakes
- bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
- britishism — Briticism
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- brundisium — Brindisi
- bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
- bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- bullionism — a person who advocates a system in which currency is directly convertible to gold or silver.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- caffeinism — caffeism
- calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
- call alarm — an electronic device that sends an alarm signal, usually to a distant monitoring centre
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- 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.
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.
- cardiogram — electrocardiogram
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future