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12-letter words containing c, r, a, b, m, e

  • embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
  • encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • icbm address — (networking, humour)   (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
  • impierceable — not able to be pierced
  • incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
  • merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
  • metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
  • metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
  • michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
  • microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
  • 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.
  • sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
  • 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.
  • submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • 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.
  • 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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