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15-letter words containing g, a, m, b

  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
  • marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
  • marriage bureau — an agency that provides introductions to single people seeking a marriage partner
  • marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • 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
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • 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.
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • uranium-bearing — containing or producing uranium
  • urban migration — the process of people moving from rural areas to cities
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • william gilbertCass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
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