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12-letter words containing n, a, m, b

  • nonmalleable — not malleable or pliable
  • nonmicrobial — not microbial, not caused by or related to microbes
  • nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
  • nonremovable — that may be removed.
  • normalizable — That can be normalized.
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • obambulation — (obsolete) Wandering about; a casual outing.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
  • omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
  • one-man band — A one-man band is a street entertainer who wears and plays a lot of different instruments at the same time.
  • ormond beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • plenum cable — (hardware)   Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • scramblingly — in a scrambling manner
  • seam binding — a narrow strip of fabric attached to the unfinished edge of a seam or hem to keep it from raveling.
  • sedimentable — capable of forming sediment
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • semibasement — a basement partly above ground, as in a house built on a slope.
  • sigma baryon — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • somnambulism — sleepwalking.
  • somnambulist — sleepwalking.
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
  • subliminally — existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
  • timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
  • timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
  • tombstone ad — a boxed advertisement without artwork or illustrations, especially one announcing an issue of a stock or bond.
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