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15-letter words containing c, a, l, b, o, r

  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • irreconcileable — Alternative spelling of irreconcilable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • lira da braccio — a many-stringed musical instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries, played with a bow and used for polyphonic improvisation.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • lucrezia borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • microbiological — Of or pertaining to microbiology.
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • non-replaceable — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • noncontrollable — not able to be controlled
  • obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
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