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11-letter words containing b, m

  • barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
  • barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
  • 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.
  • bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
  • 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.
  • 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 my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
  • 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.
  • bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
  • bedizenment — That which bedizens.
  • 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
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • 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.
  • behind time — late
  • bell-bottom — designating trousers or slacks that are flared beginning at the knee or mid-calf
  • bellmouthed — having a flaring mouth or opening like that of a bell
  • benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
  • beni mellal — a city in central Morocco.
  • benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
  • 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.
  • bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
  • 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
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