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16-letter words containing c, o, b, s, a, l

  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • for all sb cares — You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does.
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
  • psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • 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.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
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