13-Letter Words Containing: B,O,S,O,M

• the use of symbols to convey meaning

• something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible

• the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

• act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

• act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

• a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis

• an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot

• a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)

• fibrosis of the bone marrow

• an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes