13-letter words containing b, o, m, s
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impossibilism — a belief that everything is impossible; defeatism
- impossibilist — a person who holds to the ideas of impossibilism
- impossibility — condition or quality of being impossible.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- incommiscible — not able to be mixed or combined
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompossible — incompatible; mutually exclusive
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- managed bonds — investment in a combination of fixed interest securities, equities, gilts, and property, in which an investment manager, acting on a client's behalf, varies the amount invested in each according to the returns expected
- marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- melrose abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey in Melrose in Scottish Borders: founded in 1136 and sacked by the English in 1385 and 1547: repaired in 1822 by Sir Walter Scott
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.
- memorableness — Memorability.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- message board — bulletin board system
- messenger boy — A messenger boy is a boy who is employed to take messages to people.
- microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- mixed doubles — (in tennis) a doubles match with a man and a woman on each side.
- moabite stone — a slab of black basalt bearing an inscription recording the victory of Mesha, the king of Moab, over the Israelites, about 860 b.c.
- mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
- mobilizations — Plural form of mobilization.
- moebius strip — Möbius strip