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16-letter words containing a, b, i, n, t, r

  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
  • re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
  • reaction chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • robin's plantain — the rattlesnake weed, Hieracium venosum.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • run-time library — (operating system, programming, library)   A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
  • siberian mammoth — a shaggy-coated mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, that lived in cold regions across Eurasia and North America during the Ice Age, known from fossils, cave paintings, and well-preserved frozen carcasses.
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • strike a balance — compromise
  • strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • trailing arbutus — Also called arbutus, mayflower. a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
  • transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
  • transubstantiate — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
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