10-letter words containing a, b, r, o, c
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- ghost crab — a whitish crab, Ocypode albicans, of sandy beaches from the eastern coast of the U.S. to Brazil.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- halocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing carbon, one or more halogens, and sometimes hydrogen.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- imbroccata — a downward pass or thrust
- incubators — Plural form of incubator.
- incubatory — the act or process of incubating.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jacob riis — Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- jonah crab — a large, red, deepwater crab, Cancer borealis, of the east coast of North America.
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lower back — lumbar region
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.
- macrobiota — any living organisms in a given area large enough to be seen with the naked eye
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- microbeams — Plural form of microbeam.
- microbiota — the microorganisms, both flora and fauna, that inhabit a particular region, when considered collectively.
- microblade — bladelet.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- nicobarese — a member of a people or group of peoples inhabiting the Nicobar Islands.
- non-breach — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
- obscurants — Plural form of obscurant.
- obsecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obsecrate.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- obtruncate — to slice or chop off the head or top part of
- open brace — left brace
- oracle rdb — (database) A set of relational database products originally known as Rdb from Digital Equipment Corporation, but purchased by Oracle Corporation in 1994. The current (October 1996) versions are Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS VAX, Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS Alpha, and Oracle Rdb V7.0 for Digital UNIX. This release of Oracle Rdb includes advances in non-stop computing for business critical applications, improvements to OLTP performance, and easy client/server application development. It also includes an ODBC Driver.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- procurable — obtainable.