9-letter words containing am
- base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
- beam axle — A beam axle is a rigid beam which connects a nearside (= on the side near the pavement) wheel and an offside (= on the side away from the pavement) wheel.
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beam hole — a hole in the shield of a nuclear reactor through which a beam of radiation, esp of neutrons, is allowed to escape for experimental purposes
- beam mill — a rolling mill for roughing a bloom and rolling it into a shape.
- beam pump — A beam pump is an artificial-lift pumping system which uses a type of reciprocating pump to extract oil from an inland well.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- beam-ends — the ends of a vessel's beams
- beaminess — the quality of beaming
- beamingly — in a beaming manner
- beamishly — in a beamish manner; smilingly; radiantly
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- bedlamism — anything characteristic of bedlam
- bedlamite — a lunatic; insane person
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- benjamins — hundred-dollar bills
- benzamine — eucaine.
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- betamaxed — (jargon) When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition. E.g. "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market". The Betamex videotape standard lost to VHS.
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bitstream — a sequence of digital data transmitted electronically
- blackdamp — air that is low in oxygen content and high in carbon dioxide as a result of an explosion in a mine
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blameable — deserving blame; censurable.
- blameless — Someone who is blameless has not done anything wrong.
- body slam — a wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and hurled to the mat, landing on his or her back.
- body-slam — to lift and throw (someone) to the ground, as in wrestling
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- c & b — caught and bowled (by)
- c & f — cost and freight
- c & g — City and Guilds
- c & m — care and maintenance
- c & w — country and western
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
- calamites — Plural form of calamite.
- calligram — a poem in which words are positioned so as to create a visual image of the subject on the page
- cam plant — any plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- camanachd — the game of shinty
- camarilla — a group of confidential advisers, esp formerly, to the Spanish kings; cabal
- camarillo — a city in SW California.
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.