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15-letter words containing b, a, t, r, c

  • ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
  • abortion clinic — a place where abortions are conducted legally by doctors
  • abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
  • abstract syntax — (language, data)   A form of representation of data that is independent of machine-oriented structures and encodings and also of the physical representation of the data. Abstract syntax is used to give a high-level description of programs being compiled or messages passing over a communications link. A compiler's internal representation of a program will typically be an abstract syntax tree. The abstract syntax specifies the tree's structure is specified in terms of categories such as "statement", "expression" and "identifier". This is independent of the source syntax (concrete syntax) of the language being compiled (though it will often be very similar). A parse tree is similar to an abstract syntax tree but it will typically also contain features such as parentheses which are syntactically significant but which are implicit in the structure of the abstract syntax tree.
  • acute bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • adiabatic chart — a graph for the analysis of adiabatic processes.
  • airborne attack — an attack involving airborne troops
  • alberta clipper — (in Canada) an area of low pressure that forms in winter near the Rocky Mountains
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • ambrosian chant — the liturgical chant, established by Saint Ambrose, characterized by ornamented, often antiphonal, singing.
  • ambulance train — a train designed to carry sick or injured people
  • ambulatory care — care given at a hospital to non-resident patients, including minor surgery and outpatient treatment
  • american beauty — a variety of hybrid, perennial red rose
  • american blight — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
  • antarctic beech — any tree of the genus Nothofagus, related to the beech and native to temperate Australasia and South America, esp Nothofagus cunninghamii of SE Australia or Nothofagus moorei of NE Australia
  • anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • antibureaucracy — Opposed to bureaucracy.
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • approachability — capable of being approached; accessible.
  • archaebacterium — Any primitive bacteria-like organism in the kingdom Archaea.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
  • asymmetric bars — a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriological — Of or relating to bacteriology or bacteria.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barbituric acid — a white crystalline solid used in the preparation of barbiturate drugs. Formula: C4H4N2O3
  • barefoot doctor — (esp in developing countries) a worker trained as a medical auxiliary in a rural area who dispenses medicine, gives first aid, assists at childbirth, etc
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
  • before the fact — before the commission of the offence
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • benedict arnoldBenedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.

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