12-letter words containing a, m, e, t, r
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- ballad metre — the metre of a ballad stanza
- banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
- 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)
- basket maker — a member of an early Native American people of the southwestern US, preceding the Pueblo people, known for skill in basket-making
- 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
- bay rum tree — a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa, that yields an oil used in making bay rum
- beamsplitter — Alternative spelling of beam splitter.
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- beech marten — stone marten.
- 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.
- bilateralism — the practice of being bilateral
- biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
- 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.
- boomer state — Oklahoma
- bottom break — a branch coming from the bottom of a plant stem, usually formed by pinching and disbudding.
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- 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
- 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.
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
- calorimetric — the measurement of heat.
- caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
- cameralistic — of or relating to public finance.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cellarmaster — a person in charge of a wine cellar.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- chamber tomb — a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest