13-letter words that end in m
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- baggage claim — At an airport, the baggage claim is the area where you collect your baggage at the end of your trip.
- 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.
- barrier cream — a cream used to protect the skin, esp the hands, from dirt and from the action of oils or solvents
- battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
- battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
- bear the palm — to be the winner; take the prize
- 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.
- bedaux system — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
- 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
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
- bharat natyam — a form of Indian classical ballet
- biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
- bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
- bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
- bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
- birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
- 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
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- 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.
- caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
- campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
- canada balsam — a yellow transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir. Because its refractive index is similar to that of glass, it is used as an adhesive in optical devices and as a mounting medium for microscope specimens
- caramel cream — a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
- cellulose-gum — a white, water-soluble polymer derived from cellulose, used as a coating and sizing for paper and textiles, a stabilizer for various foods, and an appetite suppressor.
- ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
- changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- coalesced sum — (theory) (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape