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13-letter words containing m, a, b, l, e

  • beau brummell — any dandy or fop
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
  • biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
  • bigleaf maple — a tree, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, having large, deeply lobed leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in drooping clusters.
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
  • biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
  • biocompatible — not rejected by the body
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • bramble jelly — a jam made from blackberries
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • call sb names — If someone calls you names, they insult you by saying unpleasant things to you or about you.
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
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