11-letter words containing b, e, r, m
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- 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
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- broomballer — a person who plays broomball
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
- bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumbleberry — a mixture of berries used in pie fillings and in preserves
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- by my certy — assuredly
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- cambric tea — a hot drink of milk, sugar, and water or, often, weak tea
- camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- camp robber — Canada jay
- candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
- carbamidine — guanidine.
- carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- cerebellums — Plural form of cerebellum.
- cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain