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13-letter words containing t, r, e, m, b

  • breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • 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
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • 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.
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
  • chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
  • circumambient — surrounding
  • city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
  • 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.
  • cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
  • cucumber tree — any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
  • disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
  • embryogenetic — embryogenic
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
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