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15-letter words containing i, b, r, a

  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • dribs and drabs — small sporadic amounts
  • dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • 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
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • 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
  • examining board — an organization that sets and corrects exams
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
  • giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
  • gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
  • give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • grabber pointer — (operating system)   A mouse pointer sprite in the shape of a small hand that closes when a mouse button is clicked, indicating that the object on the screen under the pointer has been selected.
  • great rebellion — English Civil War.
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
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