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16-letter words containing a, m, b

  • mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • mainland britain — England, Wales, and Scotland excluding those adjacent islands governed from the mainland
  • maitre de ballet — ballet master.
  • 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.
  • margaret drabble — Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • 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
  • martin van buren — Martin, 1782–1862, 8th president of the U.S. 1837–41.
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • 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
  • 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
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
  • munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • nuclear membrane — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
  • nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
  • 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°
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