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13-letter words containing n, e, i, m

  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
  • benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
  • benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • 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
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beseemingness — a quality or state that is beseeming
  • between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • binary number — a number expressed in binary notation, as 1101.101 = 1 × 23 + 1 × 22 + 0 × 21 + 1 × 20 + 1 × 2–1 + 0 × 2–2 + 1 × 2–3 = 13 5⁄8
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • 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
  • bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • calamity jane — real name Martha Canary. ?1852–1903, US frontierswoman, noted for her skill at shooting and riding
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
  • carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
  • catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
  • 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).
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
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