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18-letter words containing c, a, b, r, e, t

  • leatherback turtle — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • linear combination — a sum of products of each quantity times a constant: The expression aX + bY + cZ is a linear combination of X, Y, and Z, where a, b, and c are constants.
  • lonely hearts club — a club for people who are trying to find a lover or a friend
  • macroinvertebrates — Plural form of macroinvertebrate.
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • master boot record — (operating system, storage)   A special area on a computer's main hard disk that gives the location of the disk's boot block or bootable partition where the operating system is installed.
  • metabolic syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
  • microinvertebrates — Plural form of microinvertebrate.
  • mountain cranberry — cowberry
  • moving bed reactor — A moving bed reactor is a reactor in which a layer of catalyst in the form of granules is moved between a reaction area and a regeneration area.
  • neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
  • neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
  • nobiliary particle — a preposition forming part of a title of nobility or surname, as French de or German von.
  • noninterchangeable — That cannot be interchanged with another.
  • nuclear capability — If a country has nuclear capability, it is able to produce nuclear power and usually nuclear weapons.
  • obedience training — the training of an animal, especially a dog, to obey certain commands.
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • octachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing eight chlorine atoms.
  • on the back burner — low priority
  • optical brightener — an additive that dyes and brightens fabric or paper
  • plumber's merchant — a shop or business that sells things needed for the job of installing and repairing pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas
  • precipitable water — the total water vapor contained in a unit vertical column of the atmosphere.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
  • september massacre — (in the French Revolution) the massacre of royalists and other inmates of the prisons of Paris, September 2–6, 1792.
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark)   A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • stationary bicycle — an exercise bike
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substitute teacher — educator: replaces sb temporarily
  • tectorial membrane — membrane in the inner ear that covers the organ of Corti
  • the baptist church — any of various Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of believers
  • the general public — the people in a society; people in general
  • thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • turn one's back on — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
  • urban contemporary — popular dance music incorporating elements of rap, rhythm-and-blues, funk, and soul.
  • whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
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