12-letter words containing a, b, e, m, i
- beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
- beurre manie — butterpaste.
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
- black medick — a small European leguminous plant, Medicago lupulina, with trifoliate leaves, small yellow flowers, and black pods
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
- dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diminishable — That may be diminished.
- disablements — Plural form of disablement.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.