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12-letter words containing m, t, b

  • birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
  • birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
  • birth trauma — an emotional shock caused by being born.
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • biting mania — an epidemic in which people have a compulsion to bite others, as in 15th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
  • biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
  • bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
  • bitter melon — balsam pear.
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black bottom — a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
  • black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
  • bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
  • blossom into — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • boehm system — a system of improved fingering and keying for the flute and clarinet, invented by the German musician Theobald Boehm (1794–1881).
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • bomb shelter — a shelter, usually underground, in which people take refuge from bomb attacks
  • bomber pilot — the pilot of a bomber
  • booch method — (programming)   A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • bottom-liner — a person, as an executive, accountant, or stockholder, who puts the net profits of a business ahead of all other considerations.
  • bottomfeeder — (networking)   An RSS aggregator.
  • bottomlessly — from a bottomless point of view
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
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