13-letter words containing o, m, b
- 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.
- bollito misto — an Italian dish of mixed meats, as beef, chicken, sausage, and veal, simmered with vegetables and seasonings in broth.
- bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
- bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
- bombax family — the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree.
- bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
- bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- boom operator — a person who operates a boom
- 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
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- 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
- botryomycosis — a disease, usually of horses, caused by a bacterial infection (usually, Staphylococcus aureus) producing tumorous growths esp. after castration or a wound or injury
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
- 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.
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- 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
- brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
- 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
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- 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.
- bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
- buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
- buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
- 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.
- byte compiler — byte-code compiler
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.