13-letter words containing l, a, m, o
- automagically — automatically; in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I downloaded an app that automagically adds a travel itinerary to my calendar whenever I buy a plane ticket.
- automatically — without volition or from force of habit; mechanically: Whenever I hear that song, I automatically think of my dad.
- automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
- autonomically — autonomous.
- avila camacho — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), 1897–1955, president of Mexico 1940–46.
- axiomatically — pertaining to or of the nature of an axiom; self-evident; obvious.
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- 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.
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
- balsam poplar — a poplar tree, Populus balsamifera, of NE North America, having resinous buds and broad heart-shaped leaves
- balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
- bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- 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.
- bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
- bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
- biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
- biocompatible — not rejected by the body
- biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
- bitonal image — (graphics) An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
- 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
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.