13-letter words containing a, b, o, m, i
- blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
- bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
- bombax family — the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree.
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibility — compatible
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- coxcombically — in a coxcombical manner
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- 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).
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.