14-letter words containing e, m, b, r, a, c
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- deadly embrace — deadlock
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- 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.
- nonrecombinant — not involved in or produced by genetic recombination
- normal balance — The normal balance of an account is the side of the account that is positive or increasing.
- object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
- omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- 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 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.
- submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine