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16-letter words containing e, m, b, r, a, c

  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • drumhead cabbage — acommon type of cabbage with tightly packed leaves and a rounded form with a slightly flattened top
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • femme de chambre — a chambermaid
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
  • new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • nuclear membrane — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
  • nuclear umbrella — a guarantee from a country or state that possesses nuclear weapons to a country that does not that they will defend them
  • numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • sysdeco mimer ab — (company)   Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
  • tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
  • three-ball match — a match among three players each of whom plays a ball.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
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