14-letter words containing m, o, b, i, e
- body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
- bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
- boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
- bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
- bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- 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
- 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
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.