11-letter words containing a, m, e
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
- bottom heat — heat artificially applied to a container in which plants are grown in order to induce their germination, rooting, or growth.
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- 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.
- breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- broomballer — a person who plays broomball
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- bust a move — go, leave
- 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.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- 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.
- cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- camaraderie — Camaraderie is a feeling of trust and friendship among a group of people who have usually known each other for a long time or gone through some kind of experience together.