15-letter words containing b, a, m, s
- mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
- noise abatement — a set of strategies or techniques to reduce and control annoying or harmful noise in an environment
- non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- old man's beard — fringe tree.
- old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- plasma membrane — cell membrane.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
- pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
- refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
- relational dbms — relational database
- romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
- sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
- samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
- serous membrane — any of various thin membranes, as the peritoneum, that line certain cavities of the body and exude a serous fluid.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- smallmouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus dolomieu, yellowish-green above and lighter below, having the lower jaw extending to the eye.
- social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- social climbing — advancement of one's social status
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.