13-letter words containing a, m, i, b
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- 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).
- brahma vihara — vihara (def 3).
- brahma-vihara — (initial capital letter). Also called Brahma Vihara. one of the four states of mind, namely love, compassion, sympathetic gladness, and equanimity, to be developed by every Buddhist.
- 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.
- brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- 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.
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
- 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
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bus mastering — bus master
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- 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 molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cambyses (ii) — died 522 b.c.; king of Persia (529-522): son of Cyrus the Great
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- carbamic acid — hypothetical compound known only in carbamate salts
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- 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
- cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall