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16-letter words containing a, d, i, b, t

  • inboard-outboard — Also, outdrive, stern-drive. (of a motorboat) having an inboard engine connected to a maneuverable outboard drive-shaft unit.
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indian breadroot — breadroot.
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • mainland britain — England, Wales, and Scotland excluding those adjacent islands governed from the mainland
  • maitre de ballet — ballet master.
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • safe deposit box — A safe deposit box is a small box, usually kept in a special room in a bank, in which you can store valuable objects.
  • safe-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
  • sir herbert read — George, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • state-subsidized — partly paid for by the state; subsidized by the state
  • stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • tibetan buddhism — the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed and is practiced primarily in Tibet and some nearby nations: its spiritual leader is the Dalai Lama
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