15-letter words containing b, e, s, m
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- semisubmersible — Also called semisubmersible rig. a self-propelled barge that is mounted on partially submerged legs supported by underwater pontoons, rides at anchor, and serves as a work base and living quarters in deep offshore drilling operations.
- september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
- serous membrane — any of various thin membranes, as the peritoneum, that line certain cavities of the body and exude a serous fluid.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
- sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
- subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
- tim berners-lee — (person) The man who invented the web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire', which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for today's web. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor which ran under NEXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991. In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the past present and future of the Web. In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society. Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994.
- ultraliberalism — a belief in or support for an extremely liberal political party or doctrine
- unbosom oneself — to tell or reveal one's feelings, secrets, etc.
- uncircumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- untransmissible — intransmissible
- visible imports — products that a company or country buys from other countries
- water-based mud — Water-based mud is a type of drilling mud consisting mainly of water, which has additives to modify it and make it more effective.
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
- william webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.