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16-letter words containing c, o, l, r, b

  • 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.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
  • inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • 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.
  • labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • 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.
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • 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
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • 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).
  • pro bono publico — for the public good or welfare.
  • 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.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • 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
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • 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.
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