12-letter words containing n, a, m, b
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
- box magazine — a rectangular cartridge holder in a submachine or light machine gun.
- boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
- boxing match — a competition between two boxers
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- 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.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- 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
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- 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
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- 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.
- cam ranh bay — an inlet of the South China Sea, on the SE coast of Vietnam: U. S. military facility during the Vietnam War.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
- cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
- collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- combat pants — trousers: military style
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- contaminable — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.