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12-letter words containing b, a, m, r

  • microhabitat — an extremely localized, small-scale environment, as a tree stump or a dead animal.
  • microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
  • miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  • mixobarbaric — relating to a people who have both Greek and non-Greek ancestry
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • mockingboard — (hardware)   A sound and speech board for the Apple II computer, on sale in 1978. See also zxnrbl.
  • monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  • montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
  • monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
  • mortar board — A mortar board is a stiff black cap which has a flat square top with a bunch of threads attached to it. In Britain, mortar boards are sometimes worn on formal occasions by university students and teachers. In the United States, mortar boards are worn by students at graduation ceremonies at high schools, colleges, and universities.
  • mortarboards — Plural form of mortarboard.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • motorboating — a boat propelled by an inboard or outboard motor.
  • multilobular — having several or many lobules.
  • multitubular — Having many tubes.
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
  • myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
  • nonmicrobial — not microbial, not caused by or related to microbes
  • nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
  • nonremovable — that may be removed.
  • normalizable — That can be normalized.
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • oboe d'amore — a type of oboe pitched a minor third lower than the oboe itself. It is used chiefly in the performance of baroque music
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
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