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13-letter words containing a, m, o, n, l

  • antilogarithm — a number whose logarithm to a given base is a given number
  • antimetabolic — inhibiting metabolism
  • antimicrobial — capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microbes
  • antisocialism — the quality of being antisocial
  • apicomplexans — Plural form of apicomplexan.
  • armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
  • assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
  • assimilations — Plural form of assimilation.
  • automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
  • autonomically — autonomous.
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • 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 diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • 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.
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
  • camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
  • catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chiromantical — Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
  • chlamydomonas — a green, fresh water alga of the class Chlorophyceae that is flagellate and made up of a single cell
  • chloromethane — methyl chloride.
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
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