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

  • karadeniz bogazi — Bosporus
  • king james bible — Authorized Version.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • language barrier — difficulty in communication due to language difference
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • lean-burn engine — an engine designed to use a lean mixture of fuel and air in order to reduce petrol consumption and exhaust emissions
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • line of business — profession, trade: field
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • little black ant — a widely distributed ant, Monomorium minimum, sometimes a household pest.
  • little brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
  • lobe-finned fish — any fish that has rounded scales and lobed fins, as the coelacanth.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • marine barometer — a barometer for use on shipboard, especially one mounted on gimbals so as to minimize the effects of the motion of the vessel.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • martin van burenMartin, 1782–1862, 8th president of the U.S. 1837–41.
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
  • nibble mode dram — (storage)   A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
  • non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
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