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15-letter words containing b, o, m, d, i

  • intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
  • medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
  • morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • 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
  • sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
  • 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
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
  • upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.
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