20-letter words containing n, a, m, b
- saint john ambulance — an organization that provides first aid and first-aid training
- save someone's bacon — to help someone to escape from danger
- self-belaying system — (in climbing) equipment used to pay out rope as required and thus enable a climber to self-belay
- shaken baby syndrome — a usually fatal condition of abused infants brought on by violent shaking by the arms or shoulders that causes severe internal bleeding, especially around the brain and in the eyes.
- splice the mainbrace — to issue and partake of an extra allocation of alcoholic spirits
- st. james-assiniboia — a city in SE Manitoba, in S central Canada: suburb of Winnipeg.
- standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
- stefan-boltzmann law — the law stating that the total energy radiated from a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.
- subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
- to be a one-man show — to be reliant on one person alone
- to burst into flames — If something bursts into flames or bursts into flame, it suddenly starts burning strongly.
- united arab emirates — group of Arabian states
- upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
- vertical combination — the integration within one company of individual businesses working separately in related phases of the production and sale of a product.
- wardrobe malfunction — an embarrassing situation caused by the clothes a person is wearing
- watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- westminster assembly — a convocation that met at Westminster, London, 1643–49, and formulated the articles of faith (Westminster Confession of Faith) that are accepted as authoritative by most Presbyterian churches.
- wilson cloud chamber — cloud chamber.