12-letter words containing m, e, d
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- board member — a member of board of directors
- booch method — (programming) A widely used object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design method.
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brain damage — If someone suffers brain damage, their brain is damaged by an illness or injury so that they cannot function normally.
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- broad-minded — If you describe someone as broad-minded, you approve of them because they are willing to accept types of behaviour which other people consider immoral.
- 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.
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- burmese jade — jadeite of the finest quality: a true jade.
- cackermander — a friend
- cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
- cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
- camaraderies — comradeship; good-fellowship.
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camera ready — (publication) A final edition of a document or graphic (e.g. a newspaper advertisement or a technical paper for a journal) that is of suitable quality for mass reproduction by making printing plates from the negatives by photoengraving.
- camera-ready — designating or of copy, artwork, etc. that is ready to be photographed for making into a plate for printing
- campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cd-rom drive — A CD-ROM drive is the device that you use with a computer to play CD-ROMs.
- chambermaids — Plural form of chambermaid.
- child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
- child-minder — a baby-sitter.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chloralamide — (chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chrysomelids — Plural form of chrysomelid.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- city academy — (in England and Wales) a type of secondary school funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
- civic-minded — having, showing, or actively carrying out one's concern for the condition and affairs of one's community; public-spirited
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- clam diggers — casual pants that end slightly below the knee.
- clam-diggers — calf-length trousers
- class method — (programming) 1. A method that operates on a class object (an object of class "class"). A class method is really just an ordinary object method that happens to operate on class objects. A class method might, for example, return a list of objects representing the methods and attributes of the given class. 2. A static method.