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16-letter words containing c, u, b, o, i

  • cut of one's jib — one's appearance or way of dressing
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • deoxyribonucleic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • non-contribution — the act of contributing.
  • non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • obstructionistic — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • obtuse bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • october surprise — a major event, occurring shortly before a presidential election, which influences the result
  • oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • 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 schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subconsciousness — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
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