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17-letter words containing c, o, b, y

  • joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • laboratory school — a school maintained by a college or university for the training of student teachers.
  • liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
  • liberal democracy — a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms, in which decisions from direct or representative processes prevail in many policy areas
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
  • mercury barometer — a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.
  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • microbiologically — With regard to microbiology.
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
  • office by example — (language)   (OBE) A sequel to QBE, described in publications by Moshe Zloof of IBM in the early 1980s but apparently never implemented.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • political liberty — the right to express oneself freely and effectually regarding the conduct, makeup, and principles of the government under which one lives.
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • product liability — the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product.
  • proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
  • publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
  • san francisco bay — a bay in W California: the harbor of San Francisco; connected with the Pacific by the Golden Gate strait. 50 miles (80 km) long; 3–12 miles (5–19 km) wide.
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • symbolic assembly — (language)   An early system on the IBM 705.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synchronous orbit — an orbit in which the orbital period of a satellite is identical to the spin period of the central body
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • vertical mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
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