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16-letter words containing b, e, m, i

  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commercial break — A commercial break is the interval during a commercial television programme, or between programmes, during which advertisements are shown.
  • committee member — a member of a committee
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • complex variable — a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • demolition derby — a competition in which contestants drive old cars into each other until there is only one car left running
  • deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
  • determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • dimly-remembered — recalled in an unclear or vague way
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • disestablishment — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
  • executive member — a member of an executive committee
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • feeblemindedness — Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
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