6-letter words containing m
- bregma — the point on the top of the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures meet: in infants this corresponds to the anterior fontanelle
- bremen — a state of NW Germany, centred on the city of Bremen and its outport Bremerhaven. Pop: 663 000 (2003 est). Area: 404 sq km (156 sq miles)
- bromal — a yellowish oily synthetic liquid formerly used medicinally as a sedative and hypnotic; tribromoacetaldehyde. Formula: Br3CCHO
- bromic — of or containing bromine in the trivalent or pentavalent state
- bromo- — indicating the presence of bromine
- broomy — covered with broom growth
- brumal — of, characteristic of, or relating to winter; wintry
- brumby — a wild horse, esp one descended from runaway stock
- bumbag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- bumbry — Grace. born 1937, US soprano and mezzo-soprano
- bummed — depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- bummel — a stroll
- bummer — If you say that something is a bummer, you mean that it is unpleasant or annoying.
- bumper — Bumpers are bars at the front and back of a vehicle which protect it if it bumps into something.
- bunkum — If you say that something that has been said or written is bunkum, you mean that you think it is completely untrue or very stupid.
- burman — a member of the dominant ethnic group of Burma, living mainly in the lowlands of the Irrawaddy and Chindwin River drainages and the S panhandle.
- busman — someone who works on buses, particularly as a driver or conductor
- byname — a name that is additional to a person's main name, such as a surname
- byroom — a private room
- c++sim — A class library like the simulation class libraries of SIMULA, by Mark Little <[email protected]>. Version: 1.0.
- cabman — the driver of a cab
- cabmen — Plural form of cabman.
- cadcam — computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture
- cadmic — relating to, containing, or derived from cadmium
- cadmus — a Phoenician prince who killed a dragon and planted its teeth, from which sprang a multitude of warriors who fought among themselves until only five remained, who joined Cadmus to found Thebes
- caecum — any structure or part that ends in a blind sac or pouch, esp the pouch that marks the beginning of the large intestine
- caelum — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Eridanus
- caeoma — an aecium in some rust fungi that has no surrounding membrane
- cagmag — done shoddily; left incomplete
- caiman — any of a genus (Caiman) of Central and South American crocodilian reptiles similar to alligators
- calama — a city in N Chile.
- calami — Plural form of calamus.
- calima — a dust storm in the Canary Islands region, originating from the Sahara desert
- calmed — Simple past tense and past participle of calm.
- calmer — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calmly — You can use calmly to emphasize that someone is behaving in a very controlled or ordinary way in a frightening or unusual situation.
- cam-pc — (hardware) A cellular automata circuit board which is a hardware implementation from Automatrix of the MIT CAM-6 machine. It comes with dozens of experiments and applications.
- camaca — a heavy fabric of silk or mixed fibers, much used in the Middle Ages.
- camail — a neck and shoulders covering of mail worn with and laced to the basinet
- camass — any of several North American plants of the liliaceous genus Camassia, esp C. quamash, which has a cluster of blue or white flowers and a sweet edible bulb
- cambay — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- camber — A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
- cambia — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambio — a currency exchange.
- cambre — Obsolete form of camber.
- camden — a borough of N Greater London. Pop: 210 700 (2003 est). Area: 21 sq km (8 sq miles)
- camels — Plural form of camel.
- cameos — Plural form of cameo.
- camera — A camera is a piece of equipment that is used for taking photographs, making films, or producing television pictures.