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15-letter words containing c, e, r, b, o

  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • red blood cells — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • reggio calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • robe-de-chambre — a dressing gown.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
  • rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
  • roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • to do sb credit — If you say that something does someone credit, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
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