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13-letter words containing i, b, m

  • bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
  • 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 diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • black muslims — (esp in the US) a political and religious movement of Black people who adopt the religious practices of Islam and seek to establish a new Black nation
  • black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
  • blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
  • 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.
  • blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
  • 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
  • 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.
  • blooming mill — a rolling mill for shaping ingots into blooms
  • blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • bollito misto — an Italian dish of mixed meats, as beef, chicken, sausage, and veal, simmered with vegetables and seasonings in broth.
  • 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.
  • bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
  • bombax family — the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
  • botryomycosis — a disease, usually of horses, caused by a bacterial infection (usually, Staphylococcus aureus) producing tumorous growths esp. after castration or a wound or injury
  • bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brahma vihara — vihara (def 3).
  • brahma-vihara — (initial capital letter). Also called Brahma Vihara. one of the four states of mind, namely love, compassion, sympathetic gladness, and equanimity, to be developed by every Buddhist.
  • 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.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • 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.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bring to mind — recall
  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • 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
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
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