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12-letter words containing a, g, m, e

  • balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
  • bank manager — A bank manager is someone who is in charge of a bank, or a particular branch of a bank, and who is involved in making decisions about whether or not to lend money to businesses and individuals.
  • bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • 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.
  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  • 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.
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • 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
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
  • chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
  • change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
  • chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
  • cinema-going — regularly attending the cinema
  • cinematizing — Present participle of cinematize.
  • circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
  • city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
  • clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
  • clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
  • cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
  • collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
  • cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
  • commentating — Present participle of commentate.
  • compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • computer age — modern society regarded as the period when the widespread use of computers has fundamentally changed people's lives
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