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11-letter words containing m, a, b, l

  • black molly — a jet-black molly, a color form especially of Poecilia latipinna or P. sphenops, popular as an aquarium fish.
  • black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
  • black stump — a long way off
  • black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
  • bladderworm — cysticercus
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastematic — blastemal
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • bloody mary — A Bloody Mary is a drink made from vodka and tomato juice.
  • blue mantle — one of the four pursuivants of the British College of Arms
  • blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
  • blue monday — a Monday regarded as a depressing workday in contrast to the pleasant relaxation of the weekend.
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bombilation — a humming or buzzing sound, for example that of a bee
  • boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • bottom lady — a pimp's most reliable prostitute.
  • bottom land — bottom (def 4).
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • broomballer — a person who plays broomball
  • buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bulimarexia — bulimia (sense 2)
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bullmastiff — a breed of dog
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • cable modem — (communications, hardware)   A type of modem that allows people to access the Internet via their cable television service. A cable modem can transfer data at 500 kbps or higher, compared with 28.8 kbps for common telephone line modems, but the actual transfer rates may be lower depending on the number of other simultaneous users on the same cable. Industry pundits often point out that the cable system still does not have the bandwidth or service level in many areas to make this feasible. For example, it has to be capable of two-way communication. See also: DOCSIS.
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • candelabrum — A candelabrum is the same as a candelabra.
  • cannibalism — If a group of people practise cannibalism, they eat the flesh of other people.
  • carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
  • carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
  • carrom ball — a ball with a spinning action created by keeping the middle finger bent and flicking it outwards at the moment of release
  • catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
  • cerebralism — the theory that physical phenomena arise from the action of the brain
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