12-letter words containing s, e, a, m
- balsamaceous — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
- bandjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
- barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
- barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
- base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
- basementless — without a basement
- basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
- basketmaking — The construction of baskets, especially by traditional means.
- basmati rice — a variety of long-grain rice with slender aromatic grains, used for savoury dishes
- beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
- beam compass — an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- 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)
- bedside lamp — a lamp beside a bed
- behaviourism — Behaviourism 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.
- beth midrash — a place where Jews gather to study the Talmud and other religious writings; a small synagogue.
- beth shammai — the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.
- bicameralism — having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
- biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- bismarck sea — an arm of the Pacific Ocean north of New Britain and north-east of New Guinea
- 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.
- blamableness — the state of being blamable
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- 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.
- bog rosemary — any of several species (genus Andromeda) of evergreen shrubs of the heath family, native to cold bogs of North America and Europe, with pink flowers and narrow leaves
- bombacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bombacaceae, a family of tropical trees, including the kapok tree and baobab, that have very thick stems, often with water-storing tissue
- book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brainstormer — a person who brainstorms
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- 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
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camel's hair — the hair of the camel
- camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- cameraperson — a camera operator
- camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top