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13-letter words containing u, m, r

  • armamentarium — the items that comprise the material and equipment used by a physician in his professional practice
  • armour-bearer — a retainer who carried the arms or armour of a warrior
  • armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • asylum seeker — An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country.
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • 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
  • australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
  • autapomorphic — (biology) Describing any characteristic that has evolved in only a single species (or other taxon).
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • automatograph — a device for recording involuntary bodily movements.
  • autoradiogram — autoradiograph
  • autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
  • azurmalachite — a blue-green ornamental stone consisting of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beau brummell — any dandy or fop
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • 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
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • blame culture — the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc
  • board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • burglar alarm — A burglar alarm is an electric device that makes a bell ring loudly if someone tries to enter a building by force.
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
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