22-letter words containing b, e, n, c
- a clean bill of health — If a doctor gives you a clean bill of health, they tell you that you are fit and healthy.
- a monkey on one's back — addiction to a drug
- absolute configuration — the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups in a chemical compound about an asymmetric atom
- absorption coefficient — a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, as light, as it passes through a given substance.
- abstract expressionism — a school of painting in New York in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms in unpremeditated, apparently random, compositions
- american bible society — a society founded in New York City in 1816 to bring about worldwide dissemination of the Bible.
- bacillus thuringiensis — a bacterium used in genetically altered form in the biological control of budworms, gypsy moth larvae, Japanese beetles, and other insect pests. Abbreviation: B.t.
- bacterial endocarditis — a bacterial infection of the inner lining of the heart, most often of the heart valves, characterized by fever, enlarged spleen, and heart murmur.
- balance sheet equation — A balance sheet equation is a basic accounting equation that states that assets equal liabilities plus equity.
- baldassare castiglione — Baldassare [bahl-dahs-sah-re] /ˌbɑl dɑsˈsɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and author.
- ballistic galvanometer — a type of galvanometer for measuring surges of current. After deflection the instrument returns slowly to its original reading
- bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- bankrupt's certificate — a document given to a bankrupt with the consent of their creditors, stating that the bankrupt has disclosed and surrendered all his property
- bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
- barra de sao francisco — a city in SE Brazil, on the São Francisco River.
- basic operating system — (operating system) (BOS) An early [when?] IBM operating system. According to folklore, BOS was the predecessor to TOS on the IBM 360 and it was IPL'd from a card reader. It may have been intended for very small 360's with no disks and limited tape drives. BOS died out really early [when?] as disks such as the 2311 and 2314 became common with the IBM 360, whereas disks had been a real luxury on the IBM 7090.
- battle of the atlantic — the struggle for control of the sea routes around the United Kingdom during World War II, esp 1940–43
- behaviour modification — the use of techniques to change someone's behaviour by reinforcing desired behaviour
- being from outer space — a monster; an imaginary creature
- bell, book, and candle — instruments used formerly in excommunications and other ecclesiastical acts
- benzenecarboxylic acid — benzoic acid.
- bereavement counsellor — a person giving advice to bereaved people to help them cope with their grief
- bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
- beta-indoleacetic acid — indoleacetic acid.
- bidirectional printing — (hardware) A feature of a printer whose printer head can print both when moving left to right and when moving right to left. Also known as "boustrophedonic".
- biological engineering — bioengineering.
- biomedical engineering — bioengineering (def 1).
- birthright citizenship — the practice of automatically granting citizenship to a child born in a particular country, regardless of the citizenship status of the parent or parents: an end to birthright citizenship.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- block redundancy check — Longitudinal Redundancy Check
- board of commissioners — the administrative body of a county in many U.S. states, especially in the South and the West, having from two to seven elected members.
- born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
- bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
- business reply service — a service involving reply-paid envelopes
- calderón (de la barca) — ˈPe‧dro (ˈpɛðʀɔ) ; peˈthr^ō) 1600-81; Sp. playwright
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- charity begins at home — If you say charity begins at home, you mean that people should deal with the needs of people close to them before they think about helping others.
- chebyshev's inequality — the fundamental theorem that the probability that a random variable differs from its mean by more than k standard deviations is less than or equal to 1/k2
- chromosomal aberration — any irregularity or abnormality of chromosome distribution, number, structure, or arrangement.
- church of the brethren — the official name of the church of the Dunkers.
- coiled tubing drilling — Coiled tubing drilling is drilling using a narrow (1.75 to 3.5in) seamless tube of high-grade steel, wound onto a reel.
- colliding-beam machine — a particle accelerator in which positively and negatively charged particles circulate in opposite directions and collide head-on.
- component object model — (programming) (COM) An open software architecture from DEC and Microsoft, allowing interoperation between ObjectBroker and OLE. Microsoft evolved COM into DCOM. On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel he says, "It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the 'Common Object Model.' He deeply regrets it and apologizes profusely."
- conscientious objector — A conscientious objector is a person who refuses to join the armed forces because they think that it is morally wrong to do so.
- consummatory behaviour — any behaviour that leads directly to the satisfaction of an innate drive, e.g. eating or drinking
- contingent beneficiary — a person who becomes the beneficiary if the primary beneficiary dies or is otherwise disqualified.
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- crankshaft end bearing — The crankshaft end bearing is the bearing between the connecting rod and the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine.
- curdle someone's blood — to fill someone with fear
- d'alembert's principle — the principle that for a moving body the external forces are in equilibrium with the inertial forces; a generalization of Newton's third law of motion
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