14-letter words containing m, a, b, u
- bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- countably many — countable
- 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.
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held