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

  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • 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.
  • creme de bananes — a liqueur flavored with bananas.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • 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)
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
  • 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.
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
  • impermissibility — The state or condition of being impermissible.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
  • job entry system — (operating system)   (JES) An IBM mainframe term. There are really two JESs. JES2 is smaller and simpler, and can handle 99.99% of most jobs that run on IBM's MVS operating system. JES3 is much bigger and requires really big iron to run.
  • job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • 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.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
  • modersohn-becker — Paula [pou-lah] /ˈpaʊ lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1907, German painter.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
  • new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
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