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11-letter words containing m, e, o, r, a

  • barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
  • base memory — (hardware, jargon)   The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
  • biometrical — pertaining to biometry
  • bladderworm — cysticercus
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
  • boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
  • bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
  • bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
  • bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
  • boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
  • bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
  • boulder dam — Hoover Dam
  • bram stokerBram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
  • broomballer — a person who plays broomball
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
  • carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
  • cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
  • career move — a change of job, usually to a position with more responsibility and a higher income
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