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16-letter words containing b, i, l, o, c, a

  • combination lock — A combination lock is a lock which can only be opened by turning a dial or a number of dials according to a particular series of letters or numbers.
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commercial break — A commercial break is the interval during a commercial television programme, or between programmes, during which advertisements are shown.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
  • complex variable — a variable to which complex numbers may be assigned as value.
  • concertina table — an extensible table having a hinged double top falling onto a hinged frame that unfolds like an accordion when pulled out.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • conscionableness — the state of being conscionable
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • control variable — Also called control. Statistics. a person, group, event, etc., that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. Compare dependent variable (def 2), independent variable (def 2).
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • 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.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
  • 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 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 transport — fare-paying travel
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