15-letter words containing a, b, i, r
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- computer-phobia — a person who distrusts or is intimidated by computers.
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
- contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
- contractibility — contractability
- controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
- coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
- corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
- corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
- credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
- cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
- cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
- darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- de bruijn graph — (mathematics) A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
- dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
- debureaucratize — to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
- disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.