14-letter words containing m, o, r, i, b
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- monocarboxylic — containing one carboxyl group.
- morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
- non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
- nonrecombinant — not involved in or produced by genetic recombination
- obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
- probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
- re-embroidered — embellished with beads, tiny pearls, ribbon, etc. sewn on, usually by hand: said as of lace for bridal gowns
- remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
- semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
- sodium bromide — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble solid, NaBr, used chiefly in photography as a developer, and in medicine as a sedative.
- strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
- suicide bomber — A suicide bomber is a terrorist who carries out a bomb attack, knowing that he or she will be killed in the explosion.
- superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious