16-letter words containing a, b, s, e, m, n
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
- impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
- irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- king james bible — Authorized Version.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
- 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 biologist — scientist who studies sea life
- mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
- mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
- metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
- nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
- nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
- not by any means — in no way, by no method
- obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
- 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
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
- proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
- semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
- siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
- simeon ben yohai — flourished 2nd century a.d, Palestinian rabbi.
- simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.