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17-letter words containing b, p, o, s, t

  • a sop to cerberus — a bribe or something given to propitiate a potential source of danger or problems
  • absolute monopoly — a market situation in which there is only one supplier of a good or service for which there is no acceptable substitute.
  • absolute pathname — (file system)   A pathname relative to the root directory.
  • absorption nebula — a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that absorbs and thus obscures the light from stars behind it, appearing as a dark patch in front of a bright nebula or in an otherwise bright area of sky.
  • air-transportable — that can be transported by aircraft: air-transportable equipment.
  • bacteriorhodopsin — a purple protein containing retinal and found in the plasma membrane of certain bacteria (genus Halobacterium): it directly supplies electrochemical energy from sunlight
  • basic proposition — protocol (def 6).
  • bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
  • binary opposition — a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.
  • bjarne stroustrup — (person)   The father of C++ and author of the C++ bible.
  • blood-drop emlets — a Chilean scrophulariaceous plant, Mimulus luteus, naturalized in Europe, having red-spotted yellow flowers
  • boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
  • bottom-up testing — (programming)   An integration testing technique that tests the low-level components first using test drivers for those components that have not yet been developed to call the low-level components for test. Compare bottom-up implementation.
  • brocot escapement — a type of anchor escapement.
  • bulbous buttercup — a European buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus, having yellow flowers in irregular branching clusters: a common weed in North America.
  • by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • club subscription — an amount of money that someone pays regularly in order to belong to a club
  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • cypriot syllabary — a syllabic script in use on Cyprus in the first millennium b.c., used for the writing of Greek and of an unknown language.
  • cytotrophoblastic — Relating to, or containing, cytotrophoblasts.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • employee benefits — benefits, such as health insurance, pension payments, or childcare, given to employees in addition to their usual salary or wage
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • hung up on sb/sth — obsessively or exclusively interested in
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • petit bourgeoisie — The petit bourgeoisie are people in the lower middle class.
  • petite bourgeoise — a woman who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
  • petty bourgeoisie — the section of the middle class with the lowest social status, generally composed of shopkeepers, lower clerical staff, etc
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
  • plateau's problem — the problem in the calculus of variations of finding the surface with the least area bounded by a given closed curve in space.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.

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