21-letter words containing b, e, m, o
- from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
- gamma hydroxybutyrate — a substance that occurs naturally in the brain, used medically as a sedative but also as a recreational drug and alleged aphrodisiac: known as 'liquid ecstasy' when mixed with alcohol
- garden of remembrance — an area of land containing cultivated plants, trees, etc, to commemorate the dead
- george bryan brummell — George Bryan II, Beau Brummell.
- give someone the best — to concede someone's superiority
- give someone the bird — to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
- go someone one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- have someone's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- hypogammaglobulinemia — A type of immune disorder characterised by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.
- ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
- imprecise probability — (probability) A probability that is represented as an interval (as opposed to a single number) included in [0,1].
- jump on the bandwagon — do sth because it is popular
- know someone by sight — If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
- loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
- long-term liabilities — Long-term liabilities are debts that a company does not have to pay back for a year or more.
- lull before the storm — If you describe a situation as the lull before the storm, you mean that although it is calm now, there is going to be trouble in the future.
- maître d'hôtel butter — melted butter mixed with parsley and lemon juice
- make (both) ends meet — to manage to keep one's expenses within one's income
- make one's blood boil — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
- mauna kea observatory — an astronomical observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, situated at an altitude of 13,600 feet (4145 meters).
- mayor of casterbridge — a novel (1886) by Thomas Hardy.
- megaloblastic anaemia — any anaemia, esp pernicious anaemia, characterized by the presence of megaloblasts in the blood or bone marrow
- member of the wedding — a novel (1946) and play (1950) by Carson McCullers.
- metabotropic receptor — an indirect receptor which initiates an intracellular biochemical cascade after it is triggered by an agonistic ligand
- methyltrinitrobenzene — TNT.
- mistress of the robes — (in Britain) a lady of high rank in charge of the Queen's wardrobe
- negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
- night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
- nine-banded armadillo — an armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, of the southern U.S. to Argentina, having nine hinged bands of bony plates, the female of which usually gives birth to quadruplets that are always of the same sex.
- northumberland strait — the part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence that separates Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. About 200 miles (320 km) long; 9–30 miles (15–48 km) wide.
- pick someone's brains — to obtain information or ideas from someone
- poke borak at someone — to jeer at someone
- portable commodore 64 — (computer) A version of the Commodore 64 modelled after the original Osborne portable PCs, with a flip-down keyboard that revealed a 5-inch colour monitor, and a built-in 1541 floppy disk drive. It is thought that few were made but that they did go on sale, at least in Canada.
- portable common loops — (PCL) A language which started out as an implementation of CommonLoops and turned into a portable CLOS implementation. Version 1992-08-28. It runs under Lucid Common LISP 4.0.1 and CMU Common LISP 16e.
- potassium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, slightly alkaline, salty-tasting, water-soluble powder, KHCO 3 , produced by the passage of carbon dioxide through an aqueous potassium carbonate solution: used in cookery as a leavening agent and in medicine as an antacid.
- premium savings bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- probable maximum loss — Probable maximum loss is the maximum amount of loss that can be expected under normal circumstances.
- propantheline bromide — a substance, C 2 3 H 3 0 BrNO 3 , used in the treatment of peptic ulcers.
- put someone's back up — to annoy someone
- recompression chamber — hyperbaric chamber.
- reverberation chamber — a room with walls that reflect sound. It is used to make acoustic measurements and as a source of reverberant sound to be mixed with direct sound for recording or broadcasting
- roodepoort-maraisburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- rub someone's nose in — to keep reminding someone of something unpleasant, as a mistake made
- salam-weinberg theory — the electroweak theory.
- san gabriel mountains — a mountain range in S California, N of Los Angeles. Highest peak, San Antonio Peak, 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
- sao bernardo do campo — a city in SE Brazil, SE of São Paulo.
- saponification number — the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to saponify one gram of a given ester, especially a glyceride.
- serbia and montenegro — a former country in SE Europe, consisting of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro; replaced the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2003, and dissolved in 2006 following Montenegro’s decision to secede
- sodium metabisulphite — an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na2S2O5 that is used as a preservative, antioxidant and disinfectant
- subjective complement — subject complement.