11-letter words containing m, r, s
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
- bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
- banjarmasin — a port in Indonesia, in SW Borneo. Pop: 527 415 (2000)
- banjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
- barbitalism — barbiturism.
- barbiturism — chronic poisoning caused by the excessive use of phenobarbital, secobarbital, or other derivative of barbituric acid.
- bargemaster — the owner of a barge
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- barnyardism — a smutty or indecent word or expression.
- barra mansa — a city in Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil.
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- barthianism — the theological doctrines and principles of Karl Barth and his followers, especially in reference to neoorthodoxy.
- 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.
- basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- 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.
- berkeleyism — any philosophical system or doctrine derived from the views of Bishop Berkeley.
- biomorphism — a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan: The paintings of Joan Miró are often notable for their playful, bright-colored biomorphs.
- bismarckian — of, relating to, or resembling Otto von Bismarck, especially in respect to his aggressiveness in politics and diplomacy.
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- 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
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- braggartism — the activity of a braggart
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- 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.