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14-letter words containing m, e, r, t

  • bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
  • bessemer steel — steel made by the Bessemer process.
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • betterment tax — a tax on an increase in the value of property effected by improvement
  • big brotherism — paternalistic authoritarianism that seeks to supply the needs and regulate the conduct of people.
  • big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
  • biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
  • biometric risk — Biometric risk covers all risks related to human life conditions, such as death, birth, disability, age, and number of children.
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • bishop's mitre — a European heteropterous bug, Aelia acuminata, whose larvae are a pest of cereal grasses: family Pentatomidae
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • british empire — (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface
  • british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • careers master — a male teacher who gives pupils advice and information about careers
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
  • catchment area — The catchment area of a school, hospital, or other service is the area that it serves.
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