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13-letter words containing m, o, b

  • bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
  • beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • 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.
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
  • 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
  • biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
  • 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 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.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • 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
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • 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 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.
  • 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 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
  • boardroom pay — the salaries and bonuses given to the directors of a company
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