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16-letter words containing a, b, o, m

  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • make a break for — run towards
  • make the best of — do what you can
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
  • marine barometer — a barometer for use on shipboard, especially one mounted on gimbals so as to minimize the effects of the motion of the vessel.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
  • nibble mode dram — (storage)   A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • not by any means — in no way, by no method
  • numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • on her beam-ends — (of a vessel) heeled over through an angle of 90°
  • on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
  • oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • phenoxybenzamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 8 H 2 2 ClNO, used to dilate vascular peripheral blood vessels in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and in pheochromocytoma.
  • photograph album — bound book for photos
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • portable airtime — (communications, wireless)   A wireless, digital communications system enabling user-to-user voice communication, "quicknotes", and alphanumeric messaging.
  • potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
  • proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
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