13-letter words containing i, m, o, d
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- 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.
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- 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
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- bring to mind — recall
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
- chlorobromide — a chlorine and bromine compound joined to a metal
- chrisom child — a baptized child that dies in its first month.
- chromhidrosis — the secretion of pigmented sweat.
- chromic oxide — a bright-green crystalline powder, Cr 2 O 3 , insoluble in water: used in metallurgy and as the pigment chrome green.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
- closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- committedness — The state or condition of being committed; commitment.
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- commoditizing — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- companionhood — companionship