13-letter words containing b, i, m, e
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disobligement — disobligation
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- 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.
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- 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]>.
- 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
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- embryonically — In an embryonic way.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
- endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- examinability — The quality or state of being examinable.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- 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)
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- hemimetabolic — (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.
- holometabolic — Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism.
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.