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

  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • smash-and-grab — A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them.
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • somnambulation — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
  • squash-blossom — indicating or pertaining to a design or configuration resembling the flower of the squash plant, especially as found in jewelry made by various American Indians.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • steamer basket — a gift basket of fruit, sweets, and the like, often including champagne, sent to a person departing on a trip, especially by ship.
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
  • substantialism — the doctrine that substantial noumena exist as a basis for phenomena.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • swanscombe man — a primitive human, Homo sapiens steinheimensis, of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, known from a fossil skull fragment found at Swanscombe, England.
  • swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • tobacco mosaic — a disease of the nightshade family of plants, particularly tobacco and tomato, caused by the tobacco mosaic virus and characterized by mottled leaves and yellowed, necrotic plants.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
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