11-letter words containing m, u, r
- armed guard — a guard who is carrying a gun
- armour-clad — wearing armour
- arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
- arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditoriums — Plural form of auditorium.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- auto-prompt — (language) A numerical control language from IBM for 3D milling.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- auxanometer — an instrument that measures the linear growth of plant shoots
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
- azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
- back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- barbiturism — chronic poisoning caused by the excessive use of phenobarbital, secobarbital, or other derivative of barbituric acid.
- barium meal — a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, swallowed by a patient before X-ray examination of the upper part of the alimentary canal
- barramundis — Plural form of barramundi.
- basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
- blue murder — If you say that someone screams blue murder or screams bloody murder, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of noise or fuss about something that they do not like.
- blue myrtle — blueblossom.
- body armour — Body armour is special protective clothing which people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- borborygmus — rumbling of the stomach
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- 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 lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
- british gum — dextrin.
- bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties