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14-letter words containing m, s, b, a

  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • lamentableness — The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
  • les miserables — a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • manageableness — The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility.
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
  • marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
  • memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • non-consumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • non-liberalism — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • noncompensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • orange blossom — the white flower of an orange tree, especially of the genus Citrus, much used in wreaths, bridal bouquets, etc.: the state flower of Florida.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
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