11-letter words containing m, e, a, l
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black medic — a widespread weedy annual plant (Medicago lupulina) of the pea family, with small yellow flowers and black seed pods, sometimes grown for forage
- black metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extremely nihilistic and satanic lyrics, a repetitive drum beat rapidly alternating betweeen the snare and bass drum (a blast beat), and the ghoulish make-up worn by performers (corpse paint)
- black money — that part of a nation's income that relates to its black economy
- 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
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- 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
- boolean sum — Mathematics. symmetric difference.
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- cacomistles — Plural form of cacomistle.
- call market — the market for lending call money.
- call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
- calligramme — words arranged to form a picture
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
- calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camel grass — a grass, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, of southern Asia and northern Africa, having fragrant foliage.
- camel train — a series of camels tied in single file, used to transport goods or passengers
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- cameo glass — an ornamental glass in which two layers, often blue and opaque white, have been cased, and on which the design has been treated in the manner of a cameo.
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- camouflaged — concealed or disguised
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell