13-letter words containing m, a, b, l
- balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
- balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
- baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
- bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
- banana family — the plant family Musaceae, characterized by large treelike herbaceous plants of tropical regions, having a trunk formed by spiraling leaf sheaths, and bearing large leaves, flower clusters above leathery red-to-purple bracts, and fleshy fruit in clusters, including the banana and plantain.
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
- bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- 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
- 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
- biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
- bigleaf maple — a tree, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, having large, deeply lobed leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in drooping clusters.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- 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 diamond — coal (sense 1)
- 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 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 mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- 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.
- 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.
- blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
- 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
- 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
- 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.