12-letter words containing c, a, m, b
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- noctambulant — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noncombatant — a person connected with a military force in some capacity other than that of a fighter, as a surgeon or chaplain.
- noncombative — Not combative.
- nonmicrobial — not microbial, not caused by or related to microbes
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
- paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
- plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
- plenum cable — (hardware) Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rambus, inc. — (company) The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
- rattail comb — a comb for the hair having a narrow, pointed handle used in styling the hair.
- remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- sabermetrics — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- semiabstract — of or relating to art or sculpture which is abstract but in which the subject can still be recognized
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- symbolically — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
- timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
- umbilication — a central navellike depression.
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system