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

  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
  • beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
  • beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
  • beurre manie — butterpaste.
  • bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
  • board member — a member of board of directors
  • bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • brambleberry — the fruit of a bramble.
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cackermander — a friend
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
  • camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
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