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

  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • 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.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • semibreve rest — the longest musical rest in common use, equal in length to a semibreve
  • 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)
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thromboembolic — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
  • timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • yttrocolumbite — Yttrotantalite.
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