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16-letter words containing b, e, s, a, n, c

  • 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
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • 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
  • police constable — police officer
  • presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
  • 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.
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • 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
  • reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • save one's bacon — the back and sides of the hog, salted and dried or smoked, usually sliced thin and fried for food.
  • scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • 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
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • 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.
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • 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.
  • strike a balance — compromise
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • 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
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
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