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15-letter words containing o, r, b

  • coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
  • copper-bottomed — If you describe something as copper-bottomed, you believe that it is certain to be successful.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • corn on the cob — Corn on the cob is the long rounded part of the maize or corn plant on which small yellow seeds grow, and which is eaten as a vegetable.
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • coronary bypass — the surgical bypass of a narrowed or blocked coronary artery by grafting a section of a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the patient's body
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cover all bases — take full precautions
  • crackback block — a block in which a player, usually a wide receiver, angles back sharply towards the middle of the field and blocks a defensive player from the side
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
  • cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cystic fibrosis — Cystic fibrosis is a serious disease of the glands which usually affects children and can make breathing difficult.
  • cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
  • d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
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