12-letter words containing m, a, c, b, e
- cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- call-by-name — (reduction) (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- clavicembalo — a harpsichord.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- close combat — the act of fighting at close quarters
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- comber board — (in weaving) a wooden frame pierced with a series of small holes through which the harness cords are threaded, used to regulate the cords and determine the texture and width of a repeat in a fabric.
- come back to — If you come back to a topic or point, you talk about it again later.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- commemorable — worthy of being commemorated
- commiserable — worthy of commiseration; pitiable
- common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- crumble away — disintegrate
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- emblematical — See emblematic.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.