13-letter words containing s, o, m, a
- assembly room — a room used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
- assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
- assimilations — Plural form of assimilation.
- assumptionist — Augustinian of the Assumption.
- astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
- astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
- atamasco lily — any of a genus (Zephyranthes) of bulbous plants of the lily family, with hollow stems, grassy leaves, and funnel-shaped flowers of yellow, pink, red, or purple-tinged white
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- atomistically — Also called atomic theory. Philosophy. the theory that minute, discrete, finite, and indivisible elements are the ultimate constituents of all matter.
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
- auguste comte — (Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) [ee-zee-dawr oh-gyst ma-ree frahn-swa] /i ziˈdɔr oʊˈgüst maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1798–1857, French founder of the philosophical system of positivism.
- 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
- autodidactism — Alternative form of autodidacticism.
- autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
- baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
- baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
- baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
- back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- balsam poplar — a poplar tree, Populus balsamifera, of NE North America, having resinous buds and broad heart-shaped leaves
- balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
- bamboo shoots — the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
- 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.
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- 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.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
- blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- 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.
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- 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
- bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- 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.