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12-letter words containing a, m, t, o

  • 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.
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black bottom — a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • 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.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camomile tea — a medicinal beverage made from the fragrant leaves and flowers of any of these plants
  • camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
  • carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
  • cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
  • cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
  • causationism — the theory of universal causation
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
  • cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
  • cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
  • chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
  • chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
  • chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
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