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15-letter words containing s, c, a, b, r

  • absence seizure — petit mal.
  • abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
  • abstract syntax — (language, data)   A form of representation of data that is independent of machine-oriented structures and encodings and also of the physical representation of the data. Abstract syntax is used to give a high-level description of programs being compiled or messages passing over a communications link. A compiler's internal representation of a program will typically be an abstract syntax tree. The abstract syntax specifies the tree's structure is specified in terms of categories such as "statement", "expression" and "identifier". This is independent of the source syntax (concrete syntax) of the language being compiled (though it will often be very similar). A parse tree is similar to an abstract syntax tree but it will typically also contain features such as parentheses which are syntactically significant but which are implicit in the structure of the abstract syntax tree.
  • accessible room — An accessible room is a room that is easy for disabled people to enter and leave.
  • acute bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • albany congress — a meeting of delegates from seven American colonies, held in 1754 at Albany, New York, at which Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan (Albany Plan of Union) for unifying the colonies.
  • ambrose channel — a ship channel at the entrance to New York harbor, near Sandy Hook. 7½ miles (12 km) long.
  • ambrosian chant — the liturgical chant, established by Saint Ambrose, characterized by ornamented, often antiphonal, singing.
  • ambulance nurse — a nurse who works as part of an ambulance crew
  • antilock brakes — brakes fitted to some road vehicles that prevent skidding and improve control by sensing and compensating for overbraking
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • ascribed status — the social position assigned to a person on the basis of kinship, ethnic group, sex, etc.
  • asymmetric bars — a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
  • back plastering — the introduction of partitions of lath and plaster between the inner and outer surfaces of a stud wall in order to improve the insulating properties of the wall.
  • back-scratching — a reciprocal exchange of favors, aid, or compliments
  • backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacterial ghost — a bacterial cell that is emptied and filled artificially with another substance
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • barbizon school — a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
  • basic anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • berenice's hair — the constellation Coma Berenices
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
  • black sea bream — a sparid fish, Spondyliosoma cantharus, found in N Europe and the Mediterranean
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
  • boa constrictor — A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.
  • boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.

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