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20-letter words containing o, m, b, e

  • tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
  • toothbrush moustache — a short narrow moustache, resembling the filaments of a toothbrush
  • tribromoacetaldehyde — bromal.
  • twiddle one's thumbs — to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
  • unemployment benefit — an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.
  • 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.
  • webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
  • wet-bulb thermometer — a thermometer having a bulb that is kept moistened when humidity determinations are being made with a psychrometer.
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • wilson cloud chamber — cloud chamber.
  • yellow-billed magpie — either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
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