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14-letter words containing b, e, r, m

  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • overburdensome — excessively burdensome.
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • permissibility — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • quantum number — any integer or half of an odd integer that distinguishes one of the discrete states of a quantum-mechanical system.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • re-embroidered — embellished with beads, tiny pearls, ribbon, etc. sewn on, usually by hand: said as of lace for bridal gowns
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semibreve rest — the longest musical rest in common use, equal in length to a semibreve
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • sitting member — a current member of parliament
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
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