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16-letter words containing i, b, c

  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
  • indiscernibility — The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
  • inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
  • job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • 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
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • little black ant — a widely distributed ant, Monomorium minimum, sometimes a household pest.
  • longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
  • mackinaw blanket — a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • 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.
  • monohybrid cross — the offspring of individuals that differ with respect to a particular gene pair.
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • multituberculate — a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps.
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • non-cohabitation — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
  • 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-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
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