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16-letter words containing b, u, m, e

  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • buoyancy chamber — an enclosed section of a canoe, float, ship or other object that contains air, foam, or another buoyant substance in order to help maintain buoyancy
  • bury st. edmunds — a city in W Suffolk, in E England: medieval shrine.
  • business machine — a machine for expediting clerical work, as a tabulator or adding machine.
  • business manager — a person who ensures the running of a business by managing the work of relevant staff
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
  • butterfly scheme — A parallel version of Scheme for the BBN Butterfly computer.
  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
  • champagne bucket — A champagne bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of champagne in and keep the champagne cool.
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • 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.
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • executive member — a member of an executive committee
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
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