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16-letter words containing b, c, p, l

  • dichlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing two chlorine atoms.
  • double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
  • hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
  • imperceptibility — very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
  • impracticability — The quality or condition of being impracticable.
  • inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
  • insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • 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.
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
  • pro bono publico — for the public good or welfare.
  • psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • 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 schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
  • 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
  • republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
  • republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
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