13-letter words containing a, m, b, t
- 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
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- 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.
- 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.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to 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
- embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.