13-letter words containing s, t, b, e
- memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- metastability — An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- millilamberts — Plural form of millilambert.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- mistranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- moabite stone — a slab of black basalt bearing an inscription recording the victory of Mesha, the king of Moab, over the Israelites, about 860 b.c.
- mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
- moebius strip — Möbius strip
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- mosbolletjies — Plural form of mosbolletjie.
- mosquito bite — a bite inflicted by a mosquito
- mother abbess — the female head of a religious house of nuns
- motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- multibusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- multisyllable — polysyllable.
- nansen bottle — a waterproof container for taking samples of ocean water, several usually being lowered open on a line and each being closed at the desired depth by the action of a falling weight.
- neoliberalist — A supporter of neoliberalism.
- nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- nitrogen base — Chemistry, Biochemistry. a nitrogen-containing organic compound that has the chemical properties of a base, especially a pyrimidine or purine: Four nitrogen bases are present in a DNA molecule.
- non-absorbent — capable of absorbing heat, light, moisture, etc.; tending to absorb.
- non-observant — absence or lack of observance.
- non-obstetric — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- noncarbonates — Plural form of noncarbonate.
- nondigestible — Not digestible.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- north by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of north. Abbreviation: NbE.
- north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
- object lesson — a practical or concrete illustration of a principle.
- object pascal — (language) An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
- objectiveness — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- objectivistic — Of or pertaining to objectivism.
- objectivities — Plural form of objectivity.
- observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
- observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- observatories — Plural form of observatory.
- observer team — a team deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings