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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
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