13-letter words containing d, a, m, o
- antispasmodic — preventing or arresting spasms, esp in smooth muscle
- armed robbery — a robbery that is carried out by people carrying guns
- armored cable — an electric cable having a metal protective covering
- armored scale — any of a family (Diaspididae) of scale insects characterized by a hard, waxy secretion that covers the body: many armored scales are serious pests of trees and shrubs
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- assembly code — assembly language
- astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- autodidactism — Alternative form of autodidacticism.
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boardroom pay — the salaries and bonuses given to the directors of a company
- bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- 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
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- calcium oxide — a white crystalline base used in the production of calcium hydroxide and bleaching powder and in the manufacture of glass, paper, and steel. Formula: CaO
- calcium-oxide — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- ceramic oxide — a compound of oxygen with nonorganic material: recently discovered to act as a high-temperature superconductor
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons