14-letter words containing c, a, m, b
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- scheme library — (library) (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
- scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
- second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
- social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
- swanscombe man — a primitive human, Homo sapiens steinheimensis, of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, known from a fossil skull fragment found at Swanscombe, England.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- tobacco mosaic — a disease of the nightshade family of plants, particularly tobacco and tomato, caused by the tobacco mosaic virus and characterized by mottled leaves and yellowed, necrotic plants.
- trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncommunicable — incommunicable.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
- warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.