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12-letter words containing a, b, m

  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • cam ranh bay — an inlet of the South China Sea, on the SE coast of Vietnam: U. S. military facility during the Vietnam War.
  • camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
  • chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • chromophobia — Lb biology The quality of being resistant to staining.
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
  • 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
  • close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
  • cobalt bloom — erythrite (def 1)
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • combat pants — trousers: military style
  • combat-ready — ready for combat
  • comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
  • combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
  • come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
  • comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
  • commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
  • commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
  • common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra
  • communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • complainable — That may be complained of.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
  • contemplable — able to be contemplated
  • contemptable — Contemptible.
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • costume ball — a fancy dress ball
  • crumble away — disintegrate
  • customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
  • customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
  • cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
  • cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
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