14-letter words containing b, s, m
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- common objects — (language) An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disassemblable — That can be disassembled.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.