13-letter words containing b, e, m, u
- burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- bus mastering — bus master
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- 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
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
- croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
- cucumber tree — any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
- deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- 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.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight