13-letter words containing a, b, o, t, m
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- 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
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- compact cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL defined, but not published, ca. 1961.
- 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
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- 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.
- electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- 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.
- football game — soccer match
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
- hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.