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16-letter words containing n, o, b, a, c, t

  • inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
  • incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
  • labtech notebook — (tool, product)   Commercial data aquisition software.
  • 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.
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • 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-carbohydrate — any of a class of organic compounds that are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or change to such substances on simple chemical transformations, as hydrolysis, oxidation, or reduction, and that form the supporting tissues of plants and are important food for animals and people.
  • non-cohabitation — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • numbered account — a bank account whose owner is identified by a number for the purpose of preserving anonymity.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • police constable — police officer
  • 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 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 chamber — the chamber in a rocket engine in which the reaction or combustion of fuel occurs
  • 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
  • roundabout chair — corner chair.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • 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.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
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