16-letter words containing c, l, o, b, e, r
- mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
- non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- spectrobolometer — an instrument consisting of a spectroscope and a bolometer, for determining the distribution of radiant energy in a spectrum.
- stockbroker belt — The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
- stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
- the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- 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.
- wheelbarrow race — a race in which one member of each team of two walks on his or her hands while the legs are held up by the partner.
- wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around