16-letter words containing b, e, m, y
- amebic dysentery — a form of dysentery caused by an amoeba (Entamoeba histolytica)
- assembly routine — assembler (def 2a).
- baltimore canyon — a submarine valley cut into the continental shelf and slope seaward of Chesapeake Bay.
- barium hydroxide — a white poisonous crystalline solid, used in the manufacture of organic compounds and in the preparation of beet sugar. Formula: Ba(OH)2
- batesian mimicry — mimicry in which a harmless species is protected from predators by means of its resemblance to a harmful or inedible species
- bathythermograph — a device for measuring the temperature of the ocean at any specific depth down to c. 1,800 m (c. 5,900 ft)
- beauty treatment — the use of some form of treatment to improve someone's beauty such as a facial, manicure or depilation
- before your time — If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it.
- bertillon system — a system formerly in use for identifying persons, esp criminals, by means of a detailed record of physical characteristics
- beryllium copper — a copper alloy containing a small amount of beryllium and often some nickel or cobalt, having high strength, hardness, and electrical conductivity.
- binuclear family — a social unit composed of an extended family, usually the children and subsequent spouses of divorced parents.
- bird's-eye maple — a cut of sugar maple wood used especially for veneers, having a wavy grain with many dark, circular markings.
- bootstrap memory — memory that allows new programs to be entered because some simple preliminary instructions or information are already built in.
- broomrape family — the plant family Orobanchaceae, characterized by scaly, leafless herbaceous plants that are parasitic on the roots of other plants and have irregular flowers and many-seeded capsular fruit, and including beechdrops, broomrape, and squawroot.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
- buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
- bury st. edmunds — a city in W Suffolk, in E England: medieval shrine.
- buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
- butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
- butterfly scheme — A parallel version of Scheme for the BBN Butterfly computer.
- byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
- cape may warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.
- chimney-climbing — the sport of climbing a vertical fissure large enough for a person's body to enter
- come-to-bed eyes — a sexually alluring expression
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- 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.
- dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
- dimly-remembered — recalled in an unclear or vague way
- 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 monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- 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
- erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
- fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
- first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hydrogen bromide — a colorless gas, HBr, having a pungent odor: the anhydride of hydrobromic acid.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
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