13-letter words containing m, e, b, r, d
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
- embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- madame bovary — a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- marmalade box — genipap.
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medium bomber — a moderately large airplane capable of carrying large bomb loads for moderate distances at medium altitudes, especially one having a gross loaded weight of 100,000 to 250,000 pounds (45,000 to 113,000 kg).
- message board — bulletin board system
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- misremembered — Simple past tense and past participle of misremember.
- modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- mortgage bond — a bond secured by a mortgage on real estate or other property.
- mottled umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- mound builder — a member of one of the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.
- mound-builder — a member of one of the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
- ombudspersons — Plural form of ombudsperson.
- open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
- osborne, adam — Adam Osborne
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible