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12-letter words containing a, m, b, i, n

  • beurre manie — butterpaste.
  • bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
  • bio-organism — a dangerous fast-proliferating organism that could be used as the basis of a biological weapon
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • 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
  • biting mania — an epidemic in which people have a compulsion to bite others, as in 15th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • 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.
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • 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.
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • 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
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • 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.
  • 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
  • combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • demibastions — Plural form of demibastion.
  • dermabrasion — a procedure in cosmetic surgery in which rough facial skin is removed by scrubbing
  • determinable — able to be decided, fixed, or found out
  • determinably — In a determinable way.
  • diamond bird — any small insectivorous Australian songbird of the genus Pardalotus, having a diamond-patterned plumage
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • diminishable — That may be diminished.
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