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16-letter words containing a, t, s, b, c

  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
  • 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
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • 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
  • rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
  • sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
  • sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • semantic tableau — a method of demonstrating the consistency or otherwise of a set of statements by constructing a diagrammatic representation of all the circumstances that satisfy the set of statements
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • 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.
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
  • stretcher bearer — a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp in wartime
  • stretcher-bearer — a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.
  • strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
  • strike a balance — compromise
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • substance abuser — a person who takes an excessive amount of drugs in a manner that is detrimental to health
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • take a back seat — a seat at the rear.
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
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