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12-letter words containing t, r, e, m, b

  • maple butter — thickened maple syrup
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • marketbasket — a selected list of goods and services, usually food and household items regarded as typifying consumer spending over a given time, used to measure the cost of living
  • master baker — a baker who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
  • merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
  • metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
  • metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
  • middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
  • millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
  • miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  • mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
  • montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
  • monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
  • mother's boy — mama's boy.
  • mother-to-be — A mother-to-be is a woman who is pregnant, especially for the first time.
  • motherboards — Plural form of motherboard.
  • motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
  • myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
  • namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • robert emmet — Robert, 1778–1803, Irish patriot.
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