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13-letter words containing b, m

  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
  • bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
  • bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brahma vihara — vihara (def 3).
  • brahma-vihara — (initial capital letter). Also called Brahma Vihara. one of the four states of mind, namely love, compassion, sympathetic gladness, and equanimity, to be developed by every Buddhist.
  • brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • bramble jelly — a jam made from blackberries
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
  • breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
  • breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
  • brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bring to mind — recall
  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
  • buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
  • buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
  • built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • burglar alarm — A burglar alarm is an electric device that makes a bell ring loudly if someone tries to enter a building by force.
  • 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
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
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