11-letter words containing b, c, m, e
- embraceable — Able or suitable to be embraced.
- embracement — A clasp in the arms; embrace.
- embracingly — In an embracing manner.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embrocation — A liquid used for rubbing on the body to relieve pain from sprains and strains.
- embryectomy — the surgical removal of an embryo
- embryologic — Embryological.
- emetophobic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- eubacterium — A bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement. The group comprises the “ true ” bacteria and cyanobacteria, as distinct from archaebacteria.
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
- ice climber — a mountain climber who specializes in ascending frozen surfaces
- if-come bet — pyramid bet.
- immedicable — incurable.
- immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
- impeachable — making one subject to impeachment, as misconduct in office.
- imperceable — not pierceable
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- income bond — a bond without a guaranteed amount of interest payment, such payment being usually made only out of earnings.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- macebearers — Plural form of macebearer.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- medicinable — medicinal.
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.