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

  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembarrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of disembarrass.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • food combining — a dietary approach that advocates the eating of specific foods at specific times and restricts which types of foods can be eaten together.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • i'll be damned — Some people say 'I'll be damned!' when they are expressing surprise at something.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
  • indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
  • mindbogglingly — In a mindboggling manner; in such a way as to boggle the mind; so as to be beyond comprehension or understanding.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
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