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

  • christmas beetle — any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer
  • chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • clinically obese — overweight to a degree which causes medical complications
  • close by/at hand — Something that is close by or close at hand is near to you.
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • conscionableness — the state of being conscionable
  • constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • controllableness — The state of being controllable; the capability of being controlled.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • cramp sb's style — If someone or something cramps your style, their presence or existence restricts your behavior in some way.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
  • flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • for all sb cares — You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does.
  • gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • hendecasyllables — Plural form of hendecasyllable.
  • inaccessibleness — The quality or state of being inaccessible or unreachable.
  • inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • krebs urea cycle — urea cycle.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • 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
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
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