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15-letter words containing b, u, c, a, r

  • ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
  • absence seizure — petit mal.
  • abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
  • acute bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • adygei republic — a constituent republic of SW Russia, bordering on the Caucasus Mountains: chiefly agricultural but with some mineral resources. Capital: Maikop. Pop: 447 000 (2002). Area: 7600 sq km (2934 sq miles)
  • african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
  • airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • ambulance nurse — a nurse who works as part of an ambulance crew
  • ambulance train — a train designed to carry sick or injured people
  • ambulatory care — care given at a hospital to non-resident patients, including minor surgery and outpatient treatment
  • american beauty — a variety of hybrid, perennial red rose
  • amicable number — either of a pair of positive integers in which each member is equal to the sum of the submultiples of the other, as 220 and 284.
  • annulled branch — delayed control-transfer
  • anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • antibureaucracy — Opposed to bureaucracy.
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • archaebacterium — Any primitive bacteria-like organism in the kingdom Archaea.
  • ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • balanced rudder — a rudder so designed that the center of water pressure on the forward face, when turned, lies about halfway along the length, minimizing the turning effort required.
  • banana republic — Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics.
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • barbituric acid — a white crystalline solid used in the preparation of barbiturate drugs. Formula: C4H4N2O3
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barium chloride — a poisonous compound, BaCl2, consisting of flat white crystals that are soluble in water: it is used to treat water, metals, leather, etc.
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
  • béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
  • brake parachute — a parachute attached to the rear of a vehicle and opened to assist braking
  • branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
  • branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • breach of trust — a violation of duty by a trustee or any other person in a fiduciary position
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brush discharge — a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
  • brushback pitch — a fast ball deliberately thrown at or too near a batter's head
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp

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