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15-letter words containing b, e, a, r, m

  • mortality table — an actuarial table showing the percentage of persons who die at any given age, compiled from statistics on selected population groups or on former policyholders.
  • mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
  • mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • 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).
  • paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • 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.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • 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
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • 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
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
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