15-letter words containing i, b, o, t
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
- radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
- relational dbms — relational database
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
- roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment