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13-letter words containing a, m, b, r

  • combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • 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.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
  • crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • danse macabre — dance of death
  • 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.
  • disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • 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.
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • 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.
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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