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17-letter words containing a, b, o, r

  • called to the bar — admitted to the practice of law as a barrister
  • camberwell carrot — a large, almost conical, marijuana cigarette
  • can't be bothered — If you say that you can't be bothered to do something, you mean that you are not going to do it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
  • canarybird flower — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum peregrinum, of Peru, having round, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • cape barren goose — a greyish Australian goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, having a black bill with a greenish cere
  • carbon disulphide — a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
  • carbon microphone — a microphone in which a diaphragm, vibrated by sound waves, applies a varying pressure to a container packed with carbon granules, altering the resistance of the carbon. A current flowing through the carbon is thus modulated at the frequency of the sound waves
  • carbon offsetting — a program in which a company, country, etc., reduces or offsets its carbon emissions through the funding of activities and projects that improve the environment: Carbon offsetting does not always have a quantifiable impact on the planet.
  • carbonic-acid gas — carbon dioxide
  • carbonyl chloride — phosgene
  • carboxyhemoglobin — a compound formed in the blood when carbon monoxide occupies the positions on the hemoglobin molecule normally taken by oxygen, resulting in cellular oxygen starvation
  • cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
  • cariboo mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)
  • caribou codeworks — (company)   The company which sells QTRADER. Director of Marketing: Norm Larsen <[email protected]>.
  • chamber orchestra — A chamber orchestra is a small orchestra which plays classical music.
  • chateau cardboard — wine sold in a winebox
  • chicklet keyboard — (spelling)   It's spelled "chiclet keyboard".
  • cistern barometer — a mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface has a greater area than the upper.
  • city of gibraltar — a city on the Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the tip of S Spain: settled by Moors in 711 and taken by Spain in 1462; ceded to Britain in 1713; a British crown colony (1830–1969), still politically associated with Britain; a naval and air base of strategic importance. Pop: 29 111 (2013 est). Area: 6.5 sq km (2.5 sq miles)
  • clare boothe luce — Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.
  • clear box testing — white box testing
  • code of behaviour — the generally accepted rules governing how people behave
  • code of hammurabi — a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters.
  • coliform bacillus — any of several bacilli, especially Escherichia coli and members of the genus Aerobacter, found as commensals in the large intestine of humans and certain other animals, the presence of which in water indicates fecal pollution.
  • coliform bacteria — a large group of bacteria inhabiting the intestinal tract of humans and animals that may cause disease and whose presence in water is an indicator of faecal pollution
  • collaborativeness — Quality of being collaborative.
  • colour subcarrier — a component of a colour television signal on which is modulated the colour or chrominance information
  • combinatory logic — (logic)   A system for reducing the operational notation of logic, mathematics or a functional language to a sequence of modifications to the input data structure. First introduced in the 1920's by Schoenfinkel. Re-introduced independently by Haskell Curry in the late 1920's (who quickly learned of Schoenfinkel's work after he had the idea). Curry is really responsible for most of the development, at least up until work with Feys in 1958. See combinator.
  • combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
  • common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
  • confirmation-bias — the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions: Confirmation bias is a major issue when we get all our news from social media sites. Unfortunately, their experimental method was proven invalid due to confirmation bias.
  • congo-brazzaville — a republic in W Central Africa: formerly the French colony of Middle Congo, part of French Equatorial Africa, it became independent in 1960; consists mostly of equatorial forest, with savanna and extensive swamps; drained chiefly by the Rivers Congo and Ubangi. Official language: French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: franc. Capital: Brazzaville. Pop: 4 492 689 (2013 est). Area: 342 000 sq km (132 018 sq miles)
  • contraband of war — war materiel, as ammunition or weapons, which, by international law, may rightfully be intercepted and seized by either belligerent when shipped to the other one by a neutral country
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • creature of habit — If you say that someone is a creature of habit, you mean that they usually do the same thing at the same time each day, rather than doing new and different things.
  • cross-lot bracing — bracing extending from one side of an excavation to the opposite to retain the earth on both sides.
  • customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • dicarboxylic acid — any carboxylic acid that contains two carboxyl groups per molecule
  • digital dashboard — (software)   A personalised desktop portal that focuses on business intelligence and knowledge management.
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
  • doberman pinscher — one of a German breed of medium-sized, short-haired dogs having a black, brown, or blue coat with rusty brown markings.
  • double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
  • double quatrefoil — a charge having the form of a foil with eight leaves, used especially as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
  • double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
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