15-letter words containing i, b, m
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demolition bomb — a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
- dimethylbenzene — xylene.
- disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
- dynamic binding — The property of object-oriented programming languages where the code executed to perform a given operation is determined at run time from the class of the operand(s) (the receiver of the message). There may be several different classes of objects which can receive a given message. An expression may denote an object which may have more than one possible class and that class can only be determined at run time. New classes may be created that can receive a particular message, without changing (or recompiling) the code which sends the message. An class may be created that can receive any set of existing messages. One important reason for having dynamic binding is that it provides a mechanism for selecting between alternatives which is arguably more robust than explicit selection by conditionals or pattern matching. When a new subclass is added, or an existing subclass changes, the necessary modifications are localised: you don't have incomplete conditionals and broken patterns scattered all over the program. See overloading.
- dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
- dysmorphophobic — relating to or affected with dysmorphophobia
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- embryologically — Regarding embryology.
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
- exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
- flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
- flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
- founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
- fresnel biprism — biprism.
- gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- gibson, william — William Gibson
- gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
- give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
- herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
- hillbilly music — folk music combined with elements of popular music in which the banjo, fiddle, and guitar are principal instruments: a type of music that originated in mountain regions of the southern U.S.
- homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.