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11-letter words containing m, o, t, r

  • 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
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
  • betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
  • biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
  • biometrical — pertaining to biometry
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
  • body rhythm — biorhythm.
  • 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.
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
  • boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
  • bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
  • bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
  • bram stokerBram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
  • calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
  • caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
  • carcinomata — Plural form of carcinoma.
  • cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
  • cardiomotor — relating to the action of the heart
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
  • ceilometers — Plural form of ceilometer.
  • cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
  • centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
  • centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
  • centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
  • centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
  • cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
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