11-letter words containing a, m, b, r
- merit badge — an insignia or device granted by the Boy Scouts, worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mersey beat — the characteristic pop music of the Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s
- metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- mirror ball — a large revolving ball covered with small pieces of mirror glass so that it reflects light in changing patterns: used in discos and ballrooms
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- miserablest — Superlative form of miserable.
- mob oratory — oratory designed to appeal to and inflame the emotions of a crowd, as for example Hitler's oratory
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- moral fiber — Moral fiber is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- moral fibre — Moral fibre is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- mortarboard — a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- motorboater — Someone who pilots a motorboat.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- multibarrel — a gun having more than one barrel
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- mystery bag — a sausage
- nanaimo bar — a chocolate-coated sweet with a filling made from butter and icing sugar
- nonverbatim — Not verbatim, i.e. not corresponding to the original, word for word.
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.
- obtemperate — (obsolete) To obey.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
- omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
- onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
- pan-arabism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the Arab nations.
- parabaptism — unauthorized baptism
- parabematic — relating to the parabema
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- preassembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- rabattement — the act of rabatting