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11-letter words containing m, e, r, b

  • garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
  • gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
  • gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
  • germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
  • green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
  • hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
  • hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
  • host number — (networking)   The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
  • hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
  • ibm zseries — IBM 370ESA
  • ice climber — a mountain climber who specializes in ascending frozen surfaces
  • imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
  • immemorable — That cannot be remembered or has been forgotten.
  • immobiliser — Something or someone that immobilises.
  • immobilizer — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  • imperceable — not pierceable
  • impermeable — not permeable; impassable.
  • impermeably — In an impermeable manner.
  • imperviable — Impervious.
  • impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
  • impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
  • impressible — capable of being impressed; impressionable.
  • impressibly — In an impressible manner.
  • in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
  • incombering — Present participle of incomber.
  • incumbrance — encumbrance.
  • innumerable — very numerous.
  • innumerably — very numerous.
  • ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
  • irremovable — not removable.
  • irremovably — So as not to be removable.
  • kerb market — curb (def 5).
  • lamb's ears — a hardy Middle Eastern plant, Stachys byzantina, of the mint family, having white, wooly leaves and small, purple flowers in dense whorls.
  • lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
  • lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
  • ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
  • letter bomb — an envelope containing an explosive device designed to detonate when the envelope is opened by the recipient.
  • libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
  • life member — If you are a life member of a club or organization, you have paid or been chosen to be a member for the rest of your life.
  • limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
  • limber pine — a pine, Pinus flexilis, of western North America, having light, soft wood used locally for railroad ties, poles, fuel, etc.
  • lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
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