12-letter words containing a, c, e, r, m
- arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
- armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
- armed forces — The armed forces or the armed services of a country are its military forces, usually the army, navy, marines, and air force.
- arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
- armoured car — a fast lightly armed and armoured vehicle, mainly used for reconnaissance
- army officer — a person in the army who holds a position of authority, responsibility and duty, especially one who holds a commission
- astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
- asymmetrical — Something that is asymmetrical has two sides or halves that are different in shape, size, or style.
- atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- axisymmetric — being symmetrical around an axis
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
- basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
- beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
- beach-la-mar — an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu and Fiji, and formerly much more widespread
- beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
- bearded clam — mollusc eaten as seafood
- beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- beech marten — stone marten.
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- 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 market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
- black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
- 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.
- cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
- cackermander — a friend
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- camera ready — (publication) A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing