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15-letter words containing r, m

  • asymmetric time — musical time consisting of an odd number of beats in each bar divided into uneven combinations, such as 3 + 2, 4 + 3, 2 + 3 + 2, etc
  • at arm's length — If you hold something at arm's length, you hold it away from your body with your arm straight.
  • at the mercy of — in the power of
  • atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • augmented roman — a writing system based on an expanded English alphabet, consisting of 43 characters representing different phonemes of spoken English, used for teaching beginners to read. Abbreviation: I.T.A., i.t.a.
  • augusta emerita — a market town in W Spain, in Extremadura, on the Guadiana River: founded in 25 bc; became the capital of Lusitania and one of the chief cities of Iberia. Pop: 52 110 (2003 est)
  • australian mist — a breed of medium-sized cat with a short spotted or marbled coat
  • automata theory — the formal study of the power of computation of abstract machines
  • automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • automorphically — in an automorphic manner
  • autorhythmicity — The quality of being autorhythmic, or generating its own rhythm, as for example the cells of the cardiac muscle do.
  • autotransformer — a transformer in which part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits
  • azobisformamide — (chemistry) azodicarbonamide.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • baggage reclaim — the process of passengers' getting back the baggage that they have checked in for a flight
  • ballet mistress — a woman who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • ballpeen hammer — a hammer that has one end of its head shaped in a hemisphere for beating metal, etc
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • barberry family — the plant family Berberidaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants having very varied leaves and flowers and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the barberry, May apple, and Oregon grape.
  • barium chloride — a poisonous compound, BaCl2, consisting of flat white crystals that are soluble in water: it is used to treat water, metals, leather, etc.
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barium peroxide — a gray-white powder, BaO2, used as a bleach and in making hydrogen peroxide
  • barium stearate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Ba(C 18 H 35 O 2) 2 , used chiefly as a waterproofing agent and as a lubricant.
  • barium sulphate — a white insoluble fine dense powder, used as a pigment, as a filler for paper, rubber, etc, and in barium meals. Formula: BaSO4
  • barium titanate — a crystalline ceramic used in capacitors and piezoelectric devices. Formula: BaTiO3
  • barothermograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure and temperature.
  • barrancabermeja — a city in N Colombia.
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • bathythermogram — a record made by a bathythermograph.
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
  • bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • bedroom slipper — a soft shoe worn in the house
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • before the mast — as an apprentice seaman
  • beginning rhyme — the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words; alliteration, as in The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew.
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • beside the mark — not striking the point aimed at
  • bevelled mirror — a mirror with a bevelled edge
  • biblia pauperum — any of the picture books illustrating Biblical events and usually containing a short text, used chiefly in the Middle Ages for purposes of religious instruction.
  • big muddy river — a river in SW Illinois, flowing SW into the Mississippi. About 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
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