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15-letter words containing c, r, a, b, p

  • greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • humpback bridge — arched bridge
  • 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
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-replaceable — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
  • trade paperback — a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hard-cover book, intended for sale in bookstores as distinguished from a cheaper and smaller paperback intended for sale on racks at drugstores, newsstands, etc.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
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