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14-letter words containing b, i, m, o, t

  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • bottom fishing — investing in low-priced shares that show prospects of recovery or in shares that are low-priced because of a general market decline in the hope of making a profit
  • bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • brickor mortis — a period of difficult times in the housing industry, where house prices and sales of properties are falling and credit for new purchases is difficult to obtain
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
  • compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
  • compostability — The quality of being compostable.
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • computerphobic — a computerphobe
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
  • conformability — Conformableness.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
  • demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
  • demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • hamilton bassoHamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
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