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15-letter words containing m, e, r, s, b

  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
  • cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • fresnel biprism — biprism.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
  • impregnableness — The state of being impregnable; impregnability.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
  • imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
  • impressibleness — The state of being impressible; impressibility.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • jog sb's memory — If something or someone jogs your memory, they cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.
  • lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
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