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13-letter words containing m, o, n, r

  • 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.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • 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.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • 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
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
  • cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
  • cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chiromantical — Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
  • 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.
  • chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
  • chloromethane — methyl chloride.
  • chloromycetin — chloramphenicol
  • cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
  • chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
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