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13-letter words containing m, o, n

  • assumptionist — Augustinian of the Assumption.
  • astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
  • astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
  • atomic energy — nuclear energy
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
  • automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autonomically — autonomous.
  • autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • 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.
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • 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.
  • 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 meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
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