11-letter words containing m, a
- brandy mint — peppermint.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- breadcrumbs — (After the story "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm). 1. (web) Links displayed across the top of a web page listing the most recently visited pages so the reader can quickly jump back to one. Since this function is provided by the web browser, breadcrumbs are a waste of space. A better use of the space is to display links to the page's logical parent pages in the information hierarchy. 2. (programming) Information output by statements inserted into a program for debugging by printf.
- breast beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
- 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.
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- brickmaking — the activity of making bricks
- bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- bromic acid — a colourless unstable water-soluble liquid used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: HBrO3
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
- broom board — baseboard (def 1).
- broomballer — a person who plays broomball
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- bucaramanga — a city in N central Colombia, in the Cordillera Oriental: centre of a district growing coffee, tobacco, and cotton. Pop: 1 069 000 (2005 est)
- 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
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- bust a move — go, leave
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by no means — on no account; in no way
- byzantinism — caesaropapism, especially before the Great Schism of 1054.
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- 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.
- cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cadmium red — a pigment used in painting, consisting of the sulfide and the selinide of cadmium, characterized by its strong red or reddish color, excellent film-forming properties, and slow drying rate.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calcariform — shaped like a calcar
- calcimining — Present participle of calcimine.
- calico clam — any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Macrocallista, especially M. nimbosa, having a smooth, thick, rounded shell marked with violet-brown or lilac spots or streaks.
- californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)