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

  • barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
  • barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • basementless — without a basement
  • basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
  • basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • battery farm — a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry
  • battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
  • bay rum tree — a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa, that yields an oil used in making bay rum
  • beam antenna — an antenna that transmits its radiation in a particular direction.
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • 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.
  • beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • 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.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • 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.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
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