11-letter words containing a, c, m, e
- arthrectomy — surgical excision of a joint
- aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- assemblance — the action or process of gathering or congregating
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- atherectomy — the removal of plaque from an artery by means of a tiny rotating cutting blade inserted through a catheter.
- athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomic heat — the product of an element's atomic weight and its specific heat (capacity)
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- attachments — Plural form of attachment.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
- bachelordom — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacillaemia — the presence of bacilli in the blood
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- bacteraemia — the presence of bacteria in the blood
- bacteraemic — containing, caused by, or pertaining to bacteraemia
- bacteriemia — Bacteremia.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- blastematic — blastemal
- bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cable modem — (communications, hardware) A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.