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16-letter words containing a, b, r

  • a bit, for a bit — If you do something a bit, you do it for a short time. In British English, you can also say that you do something for a bit.
  • a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
  • a la bonne heure — at the right moment.
  • abdurrahman khan — 1830?–1901, amir of Afghanistan 1880–1901.
  • aberdeen terrier — Scottish terrier.
  • ability grouping — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
  • abruptly pinnate — paripinnate.
  • abruzzi e molise — a region in central Italy. 5881 sq. mi. (15,232 sq. km). Capital: Aquilla.
  • abscission layer — a layer of parenchyma cells that is formed at the bases of fruits, flowers, and leaves before abscission. As the parenchyma disintegrates, the organ becomes separated from the plant
  • absolute monarch — a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution.
  • absorbent cotton — raw cotton made absorbent by the removal of its wax: used for surgical dressings, etc.
  • abstract algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with the extension of algebraic concepts usually associated with the real number system to other, more general systems.
  • abstract machine — 1.   (language)   A processor design which is not intended to be implemented as hardware, but which is the notional executor of a particular intermediate language (abstract machine language) used in a compiler or interpreter. An abstract machine has an instruction set, a register set and a model of memory. It may provide instructions which are closer to the language being compiled than any physical computer or it may be used to make the language implementation easier to port to other platforms. A virtual machine is an abstract machine for which an interpreter exists. Examples: ABC, Abstract Machine Notation, ALF, CAML, F-code, FP/M, Hermes, LOWL, Christmas, SDL, S-K reduction machine, SECD, Tbl, Tcode, TL0, WAM. 2.   (theory)   A procedure for executing a set of instructions in some formal language, possibly also taking in input data and producing output. Such abstract machines are not intended to be constructed as hardware but are used in thought experiments about computability. Examples: Finite State Machine, Turing Machine.
  • accession number — the number given to record a new addition to a collection
  • across the board — If a policy or a situation applies across the board, it affects everything or everyone in a particular group.
  • across-the-board — applying to all employees, members, groups, or categories; general: The across-the-board pay increase means a raise for all employees.
  • activated carbon — a porous highly adsorptive form of carbon used to remove colour or impurities from liquids and gases, in the separation and extraction of chemical compounds, and in the recovery of solvents
  • admirable bolete — an edible mushroom, Boletus mirabilis, of Rocky Mountain and Pacific northwestern evergreen forests, having a dark-red, scaly or woolly cap with yellow pores and a stout stem.
  • adverbial phrase — a group of two or more words that function together as an adverb, as the phrase in a minute in I'll be with you in a minute.
  • aesthetic labour — workers employed by a company for their appearance or accent, with the aim of promoting the company's image
  • african honeybee — killer bee.
  • agustin iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
  • alexander baringAlexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
  • alexander dubcekAlexander, 1921–92, Czechoslovakian political leader: first secretary of the Communist Party 1968–69.
  • algebraic number — any number that is a root of a polynomial equation having rational coefficients such as √2 but not π
  • all for the best — turning out to be good or fortunate after all
  • all sb ever does — You use the expression all someone ever does when you want to emphasize that they do the same thing all the time, and this annoys you.
  • all-terrain bike — mountain bike. Abbreviation: ATB.
  • alpha-beta brass — a type of brass that contains 35–45 per cent zinc
  • alpine bearberry — a related species, A. alpina of European mountains, having black berries
  • altitude chamber — a chamber for simulating the conditions of air pressure and temperature for a given altitude in order to test the behavior of people and equipment in such an environment.
  • aluminium bronze — any of a range of copper alloys that contain between 5 and 10 per cent aluminium
  • aluminum carbide — a yellow, crystalline solid, Al 4 C 3 , that reacts with water to form methane.
  • ambidextrousness — The state or quality of being ambidextrous.
  • ambulance chaser — a lawyer who seeks to encourage and profit from the lawsuits of accident victims
  • ambulance driver — a person whose job is to drive an ambulance
  • ambulance worker — any person who works in the ambulance service
  • amebic dysentery — a form of dysentery caused by an amoeba (Entamoeba histolytica)
  • amende honorable — a public apology and reparation made to satisfy the honour of the person wronged
  • american bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • american buffalo — bison (def 1).
  • anabolic steroid — Anabolic steroids are drugs which people, especially athletes, take to make their muscles bigger and to give them more strength.
  • andrew tanenbaum — (person)   Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Tanenbaum is famous for his work and books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the International Standards Organisation, Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) network model. See Amoeba, Mac-1, Mic-1, Mic-2, Micro Assembly Language, MINIX, MicroProgramming Language, standard.
  • angostura (bark) — the bitter aromatic bark of either of two South American trees (Galipea officinalis or Cusparia trifoliata) of the rue family, used as a medicinal tonic and as a flavoring in bitters
  • animal husbandry — the science of breeding, rearing, and caring for farm animals
  • anne of brittany — 1477–1514, wife of Maximilian I of Austria 1490–91; queen consort of Charles VIII of France 1491–98; queen consort of Louis XII of France 1499–1514.
  • annus horribilis — a terrible year
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • anti-abortionist — An anti-abortionist is someone who wants to limit or prevent the legal availability of abortions.
  • anti-prohibition — the act of prohibiting.

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