15-letter words containing m, e, s, b
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- 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)
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- 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.
- illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- 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
- implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- 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.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- inflammableness — The quality of being inflammable.
- intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- 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.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- 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
- little bluestem — a North American forage grass, Schizachyrium scoparium, having wide often bluish blades.
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- 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.
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization