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12-letter words containing a, n, l, e, m

  • bainqen lama — Tashi Lama.
  • balance beam — a long, narrow, horizontal wooden beam raised about 4 feet (1.2 m) above the floor, on which women gymnasts perform balancing routines consisting of jumps, tumbles, turns, running steps, etc.
  • balkan frame — an overhead frame, fastened to a bed, from which a splinted, fractured leg or arm is suspended and held in traction.
  • balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
  • balletomanes — Plural form of balletomane.
  • balletomania — passionate enthusiasm for ballet
  • ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
  • basementless — without a basement
  • battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • beam balance — a piece of apparatus used for artistic gymnastics
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
  • blamableness — the state of being blamable
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • 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.
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
  • clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
  • commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
  • commensality — eating together at the same table.
  • commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
  • common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
  • commonalties — Plural form of commonalty.
  • commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
  • commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
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