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12-letter words containing b, r, o, m, e

  • microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
  • microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
  • microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
  • misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • 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.
  • mother's boy — mama's boy.
  • mother-to-be — A mother-to-be is a woman who is pregnant, especially for the first time.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
  • nonremovable — that may be removed.
  • normalizable — That can be normalized.
  • 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.
  • numbers pool — 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.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
  • 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.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
  • overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
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