15-letter words containing e, m, b, l
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
- relational dbms — relational database
- rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
- 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
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
- samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- self-betterment — the act or process of bettering; improvement.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- semisubmersible — Also called semisubmersible rig. a self-propelled barge that is mounted on partially submerged legs supported by underwater pontoons, rides at anchor, and serves as a work base and living quarters in deep offshore drilling operations.
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
- smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
- thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
- thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
- tim berners-lee — (person) The man who invented the web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. He then went on to work for Plessey Telecommunications, and D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent printers and a multi-tasking operating system), before joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire', which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for today's web. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he wrote the first web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a hypertext browser/editor which ran under NEXTSTEP. The program "WorldWideWeb" was first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet as a whole in the summer of 1991. In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1999, he became the first holder of the 3Com Founders chair. He is also the author of "Weaving the Web", on the past present and future of the Web. In 2001, Tim was made a fellow of The Royal Society. Tim is married to Nancy Carlson. They have two children, born 1991 and 1994.
- tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
- tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
- udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
- ultraliberalism — a belief in or support for an extremely liberal political party or doctrine
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- un-come-at-able — not accessible
- unbosom oneself — to tell or reveal one's feelings, secrets, etc.
- unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
- uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- unrecommendable — not able to be recommended, supported, or endorsed