17-letter words containing o, m, n, i, b
- plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
- precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
- production number — a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.
- republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- ribbon microphone — a microphone that utilizes a metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field.
- self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
- sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- tabernacle mirror — a mirror of c1800, having columns and a cornice, usually gilt, with a painted panel over the mirror.
- take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
- uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.