11-letter words containing r, o, m, e
- 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.
- bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- 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.
- betrothment — the act or state of being betrothed; engagement.
- bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- biomaterial — a synthetic material used in prostheses or the replacement of natural body tissues
- biometrical — pertaining to biometry
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blood serum — blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- boeremusiek — a variety of light music associated with the culture of the Afrikaners
- boiler room — any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
- 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.
- boojum tree — a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
- 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
- bournemouth — a resort in S England, in Bournemouth unitary authority, Dorset, on the English Channel. Pop: 167 527 (2001)
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- bread mould — a black saprotrophic zygomycete fungus, Rhizopus nigricans, occurring on decaying bread and vegetable matter
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- broomballer — a person who plays broomball
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calorimeter — an apparatus for measuring amounts of heat, esp to find specific heat capacities, calorific values, etc
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
- camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
- cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
- camino real — a main road; highway.