15-letter words containing a, s, c, r, i, b
- circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
- claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
- corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
- cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
- cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking) The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
- dartmouth basic — (language) The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
- describableness — The quality of being describable.
- disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
- distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
- distributor cap — the cap of an engine's distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the sparking plugs
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
- hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- microsoft basic — (language) (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
- nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
- ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.