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12-letter words containing m

  • bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
  • bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bur cucumber — a climbing vine, Sicyos angulatus, of the gourd family, of eastern and midwestern North America, having leaves with pointed lobes, small white or greenish flowers, and clusters of prickly fruits.
  • bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • by any means — in any way possible; at all; somehow
  • by my certie — assuredly
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cackermander — a friend
  • cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
  • cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • cam ranh bay — an inlet of the South China Sea, on the SE coast of Vietnam: U. S. military facility during the Vietnam War.
  • camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
  • camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
  • camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • camera ready — (publication)   A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
  • cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
  • camerapeople — a person who operates a camera, especially a movie or TV camera.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • camomile tea — a medicinal beverage made from the fragrant leaves and flowers of any of these plants
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