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13-letter words containing e, m, t

  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • 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
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • 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
  • biocompatible — not rejected by the body
  • biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
  • bitonal image — (graphics)   An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black margate — a grayish grunt, Anisotremus surinamensis, of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil.
  • blame culture — the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
  • 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.
  • bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • 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
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