16-letter words containing b, m, e, s, o
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- goldsmith beetle — a brilliant golden scarabaeid beetle, Cetonia aurata, of Europe.
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
- job entry system — (operating system) (JES) An IBM mainframe term. There are really two JESs. JES2 is smaller and simpler, and can handle 99.99% of most jobs that run on IBM's MVS operating system. JES3 is much bigger and requires really big iron to run.
- job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- make the best of — do what you can
- man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
- manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
- marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
- mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
- mobutu sese seko — (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu) 1930–97, Zairian political leader: president 1965–97.
- modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
- non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
- nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
- nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
- not by any means — in no way, by no method
- obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
- observer mission — a mission to an area of conflict in order to observe proceedings
- on her beam-ends — (of a vessel) heeled over through an angle of 90°
- on the beam-ends — tipping so far to the side as to be in danger of capsizing
- permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
- phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
- proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
- robert t. morris — The creator of the "Internet Worm" that wreaked havoc on many Internet systems for a day or two. Morris, the son of an NSA spook, did some jail time for releasing the worm.