16-letter words containing b, u, m, e
- hunt the thimble — a children's game in which the players look for a hidden thimble
- hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- imaginary number — Also called imaginary, pure imaginary number. a complex number having its real part equal to zero.
- immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
- imperturbability — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- 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.
- journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
- judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
- latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
- limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
- martin van buren — Martin, 1782–1862, 8th president of the U.S. 1837–41.
- medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
- mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
- 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.
- 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.
- mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
- mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
- multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- nuclear membrane — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
- number crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- number-crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
- obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
- pietermaritzburg — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- plumber's helper — plunger (def 3).
- potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- query by example — (database, language) (QBE) A user-friendly query language developed by Moshé Zloof of IBM in 1975.
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- raster subsystem — (graphics) The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
- 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