11-letter words containing r, e, a, m
- 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
- barnstormed — Simple past tense and past participle of barnstorm.
- barnstormer — to conduct a campaign or speaking tour in rural areas by making brief stops in many small towns.
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bartolommeo — Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472–1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works
- base memory — (hardware, jargon) The lowest 640 kilobytes of memory in an IBM PC-compatible computer running MS-DOS. Other PC operating systems can usually compensate and "ignore" the fact that there is a 640K limit to base memory. This was put in place because the original CPU - the Intel 8088 - could only access one megabyte of memory, and IBM wanted to reserve the upper 384KB for device drivers. The high memory area (HMA) lies above 640KB and can be accessed on MS-DOS computers that have an A20 handler.
- basketmaker — A person who makes baskets.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- baum marten — a dark brown European marten (esp. Martes martes) or its fur
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beam aerial — an aerial system, such as a Yagi aerial, having directional properties
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- beam search — (algorithm) An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
- bear market — A bear market is a situation on the stock market when people are selling a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will decrease in value and that they will be able to make a profit by buying them again after a short time. Compare bull market.
- beauty mark — A beauty mark is a small, dark spot on the skin that is supposed to add to a woman's beauty.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- bedroom tax — a reduction in housing benefit for occupants of council housing who have more rooms than they are deemed to require
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- 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
- beta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex, occurring at a frequency of 13 to 30 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- bimillenary — marking a two-thousandth anniversary
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue marlin — a large marlin, Makaira nigricans, occurring worldwide in warm and temperate seas, highly prized in sportfishing and as a food fish.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- boilermaker — a person who works with metal in heavy industry; plater or welder
- bokmakierie — a large yellow shrike, Telephorus zeylonus, of southern Africa, known for its melodious song
- bomb crater — the crater in the ground, pavement, etc, left in the aftermath of an explosion
- bombardment — A bombardment is a strong and continuous attack of gunfire or bombing.
- bond market — the market in which bonds are traded
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
- bottom gear — the lowest gear of a car, lorry, etc
- boulder dam — Hoover Dam
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- brand image — The brand image of a particular brand of product is the image or impression that people have of it, usually created by advertising.
- 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 beam — a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.