14-letter words containing t, r, e, m, b
- bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
- british empire — (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface
- british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
- charter member — A charter member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- health problem — ailment or disorder
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
- hors de combat — disabled or injured