11-letter words containing s, e, r, a, m
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- assortments — Plural form of assortment.
- astroblemes — Plural form of astrobleme.
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronomers — Plural form of astronomer.
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- asymmetries — Plural form of asymmetry.
- athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- audiometers — Plural form of audiometer.
- autoerotism — pleasurable sensations or tensions arising in the erogenous body zones without external stimulation
- axisymmetry — any symmetry formed around an axis
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- babyboomers — Plural form of babyboomer.
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backmarkers — Plural form of backmarker.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
- bandmasters — Plural form of bandmaster.
- banjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
- bargemaster — the owner of a barge
- 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.
- 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.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- 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.
- bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
- 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.
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- bram stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- 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.
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast milk — Breast milk is the white liquid produced by women to breast-feed their babies.
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- brisingamen — the magic necklace worn by Freya.
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns