0%

12-letter words containing a, l, m, n

  • ballottement — a technique of feeling for a movable object in the body, esp confirmation of pregnancy by feeling the rebound of the fetus following a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus
  • basementless — without a basement
  • battlemented — Furnished with battlements, as the ramparts of a city or castle.
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • beam balance — a piece of apparatus used for artistic gymnastics
  • bedazzlement — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
  • bibliomaniac — excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books.
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
  • blamableness — the state of being blamable
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • bliss carman — (William) Bliss, 1861–1929, Canadian poet and journalist in the U.S.
  • bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
  • 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.
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • by all means — You can say 'by all means' to tell someone that you are very willing to allow them to do something.
  • 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 mind — to remember or cause to be remembered
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
  • central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
  • ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
  • charlatanism — the practice or method of a charlatan.
  • chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
  • clams casino — broiled clams topped with garlic butter, bacon, bread crumbs, etc. and served in their bottom shells
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
  • clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
  • clean-limbed — having well-proportioned limbs
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • clonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
  • coalitionism — the principle of governing by coalition
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?