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13-letter words containing b, m

  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
  • bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • be muffled up — If you are muffled up, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • bear the palm — to be the winner; take the prize
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beau brummell — any dandy or fop
  • bedaux system — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
  • benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
  • benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beseemingness — a quality or state that is beseeming
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
  • between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
  • beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • bharat natyam — a form of Indian classical ballet
  • biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
  • bigleaf maple — a tree, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, having large, deeply lobed leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in drooping clusters.
  • 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.
  • billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • binary number — a number expressed in binary notation, as 1101.101 = 1 × 23 + 1 × 22 + 0 × 21 + 1 × 20 + 1 × 2–1 + 0 × 2–2 + 1 × 2–3 = 13 5⁄8
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
  • bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
  • biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
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