13-letter words containing e, m, b, d
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- itemized bill — invoice giving detailed breakdown of costs
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- leaden-limbed — sluggish; incapable of movement
- liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- madame bovary — a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.
- made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- 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
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- marmalade box — genipap.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- medium bomber — a moderately large airplane capable of carrying large bomb loads for moderate distances at medium altitudes, especially one having a gross loaded weight of 100,000 to 250,000 pounds (45,000 to 113,000 kg).
- message board — bulletin board system
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- misremembered — Simple past tense and past participle of misremember.