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13-letter words containing e, m

  • 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 economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • black margate — a grayish grunt, Anisotremus surinamensis, of the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil.
  • black measles — a severe form of measles characterized by dark eruptions caused by bleeding under the skin
  • black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
  • 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
  • blameableness — the quality of being blameable
  • 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.
  • blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
  • blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
  • 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.
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • 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
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • 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
  • 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
  • buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
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