12-letter words containing g, a, m, e
- balladmonger — (formerly) a seller of ballads, esp on broadsheets
- bank manager — A bank manager is someone who is in charge of a bank, or a particular branch of a bank, and who is involved in making decisions about whether or not to lend money to businesses and individuals.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
- basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- bead molding — bead (def 12).
- beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
- 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.
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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
- bombe glacée — a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
- 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.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- 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
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- 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
- cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
- cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
- camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
- camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- case grammar — a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- cinema-going — regularly attending the cinema
- cinematizing — Present participle of cinematize.
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- cleistogamic — Alternative form of cleistogamous.
- collegialism — the theory that the church's highest authority is its collective membership
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- commentating — Present participle of commentate.
- compensating — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- computer age — modern society regarded as the period when the widespread use of computers has fundamentally changed people's lives