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16-letter words containing m, a, r, b, e, l

  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • complex variable — a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
  • gingerbread palm — doom palm.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
  • hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
  • imperturbability — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • maitre de ballet — ballet master.
  • margaret drabble — Margaret, born 1939, English novelist.
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
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