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17-letter words containing p, a, b, s

  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • indian paintbrush — any of several semiparasitic plants belonging to the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, as C. linariaefolia, of the western U.S.: the state flower of Wyoming.
  • indispensableness — The characteristic of being indispensable; indispensability.
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • intestinal bypass — the surgical circumvention, by anastomosis, of a diseased portion of the intestine; also sometimes used to reduce nutrient absorption in morbidly obese patients.
  • japanese barberry — a thorny barberry, Berberis thunbergii, of Japan, having yellow flowers and bearing bright-red fruit, grown as a hedge plant.
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • on the pig's back — successful; established
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • passamaquoddy bay — an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between Maine and New Brunswick, at the mouth of the St. Croix River.
  • passive obedience — unquestioning obedience to authority
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
  • plateau's problem — the problem in the calculus of variations of finding the surface with the least area bounded by a given closed curve in space.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.
  • potassium bromate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KBrO 3 , used chiefly as an oxidizing agent and as an analytical reagent.
  • potassium bromide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KBr, having a bitter saline taste: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic papers and plates, in engraving, and in medicine as a sedative.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • public assistance — government aid to the poor, disabled, or aged or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps.
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • push the boat out — to celebrate, esp lavishly and expensively
  • roseate spoonbill — a tropical New World spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, having rose-colored plumage and a bare head.
  • rubber-base paint — latex paint.
  • sable island pony — a variety of wild pony found on Sable Island, Nova Scotia
  • scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • spiral bevel gear — a bevel gear having curved teeth tending to converge on the axis of rotation.
  • spiritual bouquet — the spiritual presentation of a good work to another person.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
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