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17-letter words containing s, o, m, b, e

  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
  • leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • microdermabrasion — A cosmetic treatment in which the face is sprayed with exfoliant crystals to remove dead epidermal cells.
  • mis en bouteilles — (of a wine) bottled by a specified château, shipper, etc.
  • movable-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do can be transposed to the tonic of any key.
  • move one's bowels — to pass waste matter from the large intestine; defecate
  • national assembly — the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
  • neurofibromatosis — a dominantly inherited genetic disorder characterized by flat brown patches on the skin, neurofibromas of the skin and internal organs, and in some cases skeletal deformity.
  • non-reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
  • old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
  • on someone's back — criticizing or pestering someone
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • plateau's problem — the problem in the calculus of variations of finding the surface with the least area bounded by a given closed curve in space.
  • potassium bromate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KBrO 3 , used chiefly as an oxidizing agent and as an analytical reagent.
  • potassium bromide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KBr, having a bitter saline taste: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic papers and plates, in engraving, and in medicine as a sedative.
  • precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • sodium bichromate — a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • symbolic assembly — (language)   An early system on the IBM 705.
  • 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
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
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