11-letter words containing b, a, m, e
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- basil thyme — a plant, Acinos thymoides, of the mint family, having egg-shaped leaves and purplish flowers.
- basil-thyme — a European plant, Acinos arvensis, having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers: family Lamiaceae
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- battlements — The battlements of a castle or fortress consist of a wall built round the top, with gaps through which guns or arrows can be fired.
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
- be made one — (of a man and a woman) to become married
- be meant to — If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
- be to blame — to be at fault or culpable
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
- beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
- bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
- benjaminite — a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- bimetallism — the use of two metals, esp gold and silver, in fixed relative values as the standard of value and currency
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.