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11-letter words containing b, a, s, m

  • bargemaster — the owner of a barge
  • barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
  • barra mansa — a city in Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil.
  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
  • 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.
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • 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.
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • 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.
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • 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.
  • betsiamites — a river in E Quebec, Canada, flowing SE to the St. Lawrence River. 240 miles (386 km) long.
  • biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
  • 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.
  • biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
  • bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
  • black stump — a long way off
  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastematic — blastemal
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • braggartism — the activity of a braggart
  • bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • 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
  • brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
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