16-letter words containing a, n, b, p, t
- impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interpretability — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
- loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
- non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- observation post — a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- operating budget — money allocated to a project
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
- personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
- pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
- planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
- plant bargaining — a form of bargaining within industry, involving either informal small groups of employees or collective agreements at plant level
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- police constable — police officer
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
- pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- public transport — fare-paying travel
- publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
- publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
- robin's plantain — the rattlesnake weed, Hieracium venosum.
- saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
- tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- vapor combustion — Vapor combustion is a closed burn system used for treating liquid waste which contains volatile organic compounds.
- vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
- water-base paint — latex paint.
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty