14-letter words containing t, e, b
- master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- megavertebrate — a very big vertebrate, such as a rhinoceros
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- metabolic heat — animal heat.
- metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methoxybenzene — anisole.
- methyl benzene — toluene
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
- microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural number — a positive integer or zero.
- natural rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- network number — network address
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- neutron number — the number of neutrons in the nucleus of an atom, equal to the mass number minus the atomic number of the atom. Symbol: N.
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- nexpert object — An expert system.
- nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- nitrile rubber — a synthetic rubber obtained by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene, noted for its oil resistance.
- nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
- nitrosobenzene — a blue, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 5 NO, that is green as a molten solid or in solution.
- non-actionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.