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11-letter words containing a, m, b, r

  • eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
  • farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
  • fimbriating — Present participle of fimbriate.
  • fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • framebuffer — (computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
  • from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
  • from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
  • gamebreaker — a person who makes a significant contribution to a team's sporting success
  • garbage man — refuse collector
  • garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
  • gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
  • germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
  • ibritumomab — A monoclonal antibody which is linked with yttrium-90 as the drug ibritumomab tiuxetan.
  • imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
  • imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
  • immemorable — That cannot be remembered or has been forgotten.
  • imperceable — not pierceable
  • impermeable — not permeable; impassable.
  • impermeably — In an impermeable manner.
  • imperviable — Impervious.
  • impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
  • impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
  • improbation — the act of disapproving or objecting to something
  • in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
  • incumbrance — encumbrance.
  • innumerable — very numerous.
  • innumerably — very numerous.
  • ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
  • irremovable — not removable.
  • irremovably — So as not to be removable.
  • isoabnormal — isabnormal.
  • kerb market — curb (def 5).
  • labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
  • lamb's ears — a hardy Middle Eastern plant, Stachys byzantina, of the mint family, having white, wooly leaves and small, purple flowers in dense whorls.
  • lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
  • lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
  • ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
  • liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
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