16-letter words containing c, l, o, n, e, b
- longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
- mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
- 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-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- 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.
- occasional table — a small table with no regular use
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- police constable — police officer
- 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.
- publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
- ribonucleic acid — RNA.
- round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
- the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
- tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- uncountable noun — An uncountable noun is the same as an uncount noun.
- uncountable-noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
- 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.
- wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around