16-letter words containing b, y, c, a, t
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- impracticability — The quality or condition of being impracticable.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
- kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
- lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- 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.
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- non-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
- republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them