11-letter words containing c, r, a, m
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- back matter — the parts of a book, such as the index and appendices, that follow the main text
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- bacteraemia — the presence of bacteria in the blood
- bacteraemic — containing, caused by, or pertaining to bacteraemia
- bacteriemia — Bacteremia.
- basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- 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 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.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- black maria — a police van for transporting prisoners
- bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
- boring clam — piddock
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calcariform — shaped like a calcar
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.