15-letter words containing d, e, m, o, b
- horned cucumber — a tropical African plant, Cucumis metuliferus, having fruit with spiky, orange skin and jellylike pulp that tastes like cucumbers.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- incendiary bomb — a bomb that is designed to start fires
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
- mbogo, dr. fred — /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, especially an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between "bogus" and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare Bloggs Family, the, see also fred.
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- moderate breeze — a wind of 13–18 miles per hour (5.8–8 m/sec).
- monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
- monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
- number one wood — driver (def 4).
- old man's beard — fringe tree.
- old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
- omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
- order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- ordinal numbers — 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).
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- relational dbms — relational database
- reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
- robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
- to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
- unrecommendable — not able to be recommended, supported, or endorsed
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.