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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • 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
  • bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • 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).
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
  • chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
  • combativeness — The state of being combative.
  • combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
  • combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
  • companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
  • councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
  • cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
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