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14-letter words containing b, m

  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • 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
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • 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.
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • 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
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • 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.
  • room and board — lodging and meals.
  • 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 baseman — the player whose position is second base.
  • 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.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • 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
  • showbiz column — a column about the entertainment industry
  • 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.
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