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15-letter words containing i, m, b, t

  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • 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.
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
  • proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • 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
  • 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-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • 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
  • 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
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
  • suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
  • 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
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • 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.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • 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.
  • tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
  • 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.
  • timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
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