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16-letter words containing t, r, e, m, b

  • broadloom carpet — any carpet woven on a wide loom and not having seams, especially one wider than 54 inches (137 cm).
  • brompton mixture — a mixture of narcotics, tranquilizers, and alcohol, used to kill pain for terminally ill patients
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • bumper to bumper — If traffic is bumper to bumper, the vehicles are so close to one another that they are almost touching and are moving very slowly.
  • bumper-to-bumper — marked by a long line of cars moving slowly or with many stops and starts, one behind the other: bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • bury st. edmunds — a city in W Suffolk, in E England: medieval shrine.
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
  • butterfly scheme — A parallel version of Scheme for the BBN Butterfly computer.
  • byzantine empire — the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, esp after the deposition of the last emperor in Rome (476 ad). It was finally extinguished by the fall of Constantinople, its capital, in 1453
  • cabinet minister — a minister who is a member of the cabinet
  • camborne-redruth — a former (until 1974) urban district in SW England, in Cornwall: formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of the neighbouring towns of Camborne and Redruth. Pop: 39 936 (2001)
  • chamber of trade — a national organization representing local chambers of commerce
  • christmas beetle — any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • circumscriptible — Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • committee member — a member of a committee
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
  • demolition derby — a competition in which contestants drive old cars into each other until there is only one car left running
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • erymanthian boar — a wild boar that ravaged the district around Mount Erymanthus: captured by Hercules as his fourth labour
  • executive member — a member of an executive committee
  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
  • heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
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