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16-letter words containing b, a, e, l

  • 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 biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • 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
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • 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
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
  • observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
  • philip r. bagley — (person)   A pioneer of computer document retrieval. See metadata.
  • pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
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