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15-letter words containing c, o, t, a, b

  • elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
  • hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • incompatibility — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • inconsolability — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • indicator board — a device that shows information, such as the arrival and departure times of trains or planes
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
  • jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
  • matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • microsoft basic — (language)   (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • nanofabrication — the design and manufacture of products and structures, especially electronic devices, with dimensions measured in nanometers.
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • non-accountable — subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.
  • non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
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