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12-letter words containing r, m, c

  • backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard
  • backroom boy — You can refer to a man as a backroom boy when he does important work in an organization and has good ideas but is not seen or known about by the public.
  • backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
  • backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
  • barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
  • barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
  • barrack room — a room inside a military barracks, esp one in which soldiers sleep
  • basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
  • bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
  • beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
  • beach-la-mar — an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu and Fiji, and formerly much more widespread
  • beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
  • bearded clam — mollusc eaten as seafood
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
  • beche-de-mer — trepang
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
  • bimorph cell — a piezoelectric transducer consisting of two crystals cemented together, used in microphones, headphones, loudspeakers, etc. to convert vibrations into a voltage output or to convert a signal voltage into vibrations that can produce audible sounds
  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
  • biorhythmics — the study of biorhythms
  • birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
  • bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
  • black market — If something is bought or sold on the black market, it is bought or sold illegally.
  • black stream — a warm ocean current in the Pacific, flowing N along the E coast of Taiwan, NE along the E coast of Japan, and continuing in an easterly direction into the open Pacific.
  • black-market — to black-marketeer.
  • bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • brahmacharya — the stage of life of the student, entailing study of the Vedas and complete celibacy, usually lasting for twelve years.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
  • 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.
  • by my certie — assuredly
  • 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
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
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