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14-letter words containing m, a, l, r, b, o

  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • marble orchard — cemetery.
  • marine biology — science of sea life
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
  • metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
  • microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
  • mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
  • molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
  • molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
  • monocarboxylic — containing one carboxyl group.
  • morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • normal balance — The normal balance of an account is the side of the account that is positive or increasing.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • orange blossom — the white flower of an orange tree, especially of the genus Citrus, much used in wreaths, bridal bouquets, etc.: the state flower of Florida.
  • ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
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