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14-letter words containing a, b, s, t, e, m

  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • inimitableness — The quality of being inimitable.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • james breasted — James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • lamentableness — The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
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