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16-letter words containing b, a, r, n, s, t

  • cabinet minister — a minister who is a member of the cabinet
  • canterbury bells — a cultivated bellflower (Campanula medium) with white, pink, or blue cuplike flowers
  • canterbury tales — an unfinished literary work by Chaucer, largely in verse, consisting of stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury
  • collaborationism — The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
  • collaborationist — A collaborationist government or individual is one that helps or gives support to the enemy during the war.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • contrabassoonist — Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
  • controllableness — The state of being controllable; the capability of being controlled.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • cray instability — A shortcoming of a program or algorithm that manifests itself only when a large problem is being run on a powerful machine such as a Cray. Generally more subtle than bugs that can be detected in smaller problems running on a workstation or minicomputer.
  • data abstraction — (data)   Any representation of data in which the implementation details are hidden (abstracted). Abstract data types and objects are the two primary forms of data abstraction.
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • determinableness — Capability of being determined; determinability.
  • discriminability — The condition of being discriminable.
  • disembarrassment — Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
  • green vegetables — green edible plants
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • interest-bearing — paying interest
  • interminableness — The state or condition of being interminable.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
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