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

  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • 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
  • 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
  • erythroblastosis — A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood.
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • fortin barometer — an adjustable cistern barometer, the most common of those employing mercury.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • frontier orbital — the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties
  • heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • indian breadroot — breadroot.
  • intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
  • inter-laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • into the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • little brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
  • marine barometer — a barometer for use on shipboard, especially one mounted on gimbals so as to minimize the effects of the motion of the vessel.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • national library — a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
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