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12-letter words containing t, m, a

  • 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.
  • bhakti-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • bioastronomy — the branch of biology which deals with the study or the discovery of life forms on other planets or in space
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
  • birth trauma — an emotional shock caused by being born.
  • biting mania — an epidemic in which people have a compulsion to bite others, as in 15th-century Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • black bottom — a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
  • 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.
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • boomer state — Oklahoma
  • bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
  • bottom grass — any grass that grows on bottoms or lowlands.
  • bottom quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 4.7 to 5.3 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • bottom yeast — a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
  • boxing match — a competition between two boxers
  • bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • 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
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bromomethane — methyl bromide.
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • call to mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
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