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14-letter words containing b, u, m, i

  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • messier number — a number (preceded by M) designating the 109 double stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the Messier catalog.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
  • nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
  • noctambulation — Sleepwalking.
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
  • noncombustible — not flammable.
  • nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
  • oblique motion — the relative motion of two melodic parts in which one remains in place or moves relatively little while the other moves more actively.
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
  • ordinal number — 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).
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • 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
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
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