16-letter words containing a, l, h, b
- hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
- hypervariability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
- inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
- khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- labtech notebook — (tool, product) Commercial data aquisition software.
- lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- long-established — having a long history; old
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
- machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
- machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
- nash equilibrium — (in game theory) a stable state of a system involving the interaction of two or more players in which no player can gain by a unilateral change of strategy if the strategies of the other players remain unchanged
- non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
- oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
- on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
- philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
- philip r. bagley — (person) A pioneer of computer document retrieval. See metadata.
- photograph album — bound book for photos
- port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- re-establishment — the act or an instance of establishing.
- research library — a general or specialized library that collects materials for use in intensive research projects.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- saint-barthelemy — (Saint Bartholomew; Saint Barts; Saint Barths) a resort island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands, part of the French department of Guadeloupe. 6900; 8 sq. mi. (21 sq. km).
- scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.