13-letter words containing a, b, t, e, m
- bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
- binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
- bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
- biocompatible — not rejected by the body
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- bitonal image — (graphics) An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black margate — a grayish grunt, Anisotremus surinamensis, of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil.
- blame culture — the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
- bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
- boom operator — a person who operates a boom
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
- breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bus mastering — bus master
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- 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.
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- circumambient — surrounding
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- death chamber — a room in which someone has died
- 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.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- 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.
- electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed