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12-letter words containing t, m, e

  • banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
  • bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
  • barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
  • barometrical — (archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • battery farm — a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry
  • battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
  • bay rum tree — a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa, that yields an oil used in making bay rum
  • beam antenna — an antenna that transmits its radiation in a particular direction.
  • beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
  • befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
  • belittlement — to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
  • bell bottoms — Also, bell-bottomed. (of trousers) wide and flaring at the bottoms of the legs.
  • bell-bottoms — Bell-bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet.
  • bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • besom pocket — an interior pocket with edging or stitching around the opening.
  • beta emitter — a radioactive element, either natural or artificial, which changes into another element by emitting a beta particle
  • 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.
  • betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
  • bewilderment — Bewilderment is the feeling of being bewildered.
  • bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
  • bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
  • biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomagnetism — animal magnetism.
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
  • bioterrorism — Bioterrorism is terrorism that involves the use of biological weapons.
  • birth mother — the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • biting midge — any small fragile dipterous fly of the family Ceratopogonidae, most of which suck the blood of mammals, birds, or other insects
  • bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
  • bitter melon — balsam pear.
  • blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
  • 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
  • block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
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