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15-letter words containing r, o, b, c

  • nonbelligerency — the state or status of not participating in a war.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • noncompressible — not able to be compressed
  • noncontributory — pertaining to or of the nature of contribution; contributing.
  • noncontrollable — not able to be controlled
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
  • not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
  • obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • omega-algebraic — In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the lub of some chain of compact elements. If the set of compact elements is countable it is omega-algebraic. Usually written with a Greek letter omega (LaTeX \omega).
  • orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • 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 lavatory — a public toilet
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • 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
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
  • 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.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • red blood cells — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • reggio calabria — a seaport in S Italy, on the Strait of Messina: almost totally destroyed by an earthquake 1908.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
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