13-letter words containing a, b, e, m
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embarrassable — Capable of being embarrassed.
- embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
- embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- embryonically — In an embryonic way.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- examinability — The quality or state of being examinable.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
- football game — soccer match
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- frame grabber — (hardware) A device that captures a single frame from an analog video signal (from a video camera or VCR) and stores it as a digital image under computer control.
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.