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16-letter words containing t, a, b, e, i, c

  • business account — a bank account or type of bank account used for business transactions rather than personal ones
  • butenedioic acid — either of two geometrical isomers with the formula HOOCCH:CHCOOH
  • buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
  • byzantine church — Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • cabinet minister — a minister who is a member of the cabinet
  • cable television — Cable television is a television system in which signals are sent along wires rather than by radio waves.
  • caducibranchiate — (of many amphibians, such as frogs) having gills during one stage of the life cycle only
  • can you beat it? — an expression of utter amazement or surprise
  • captive breeding — Captive breeding is the breeding of wild animals in places such as zoos, especially animals which have become rare in the wild.
  • carboxypeptidase — any of several digestive enzymes that catalyze the removal of an amino acid from the end of a peptide chain having a free carbonyl group.
  • cassia-bark tree — a lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum cassia, of eastern Asia.
  • celebrity status — the prominence of film star, footballer, musician etc who is constantly photographed and written about in tabloids and magazines
  • chafe at the bit — to be impatient or vexed, as because of delay
  • champ at the bit — If someone is champing at the bit or is chomping at the bit, they are very impatient to do something, but they are prevented from doing it, usually by circumstances that they have no control over.
  • charitable trust — a trust set up for the benefit of a charity that complies with the regulations of the Charity Commissioners to enable it to be exempt from paying income tax
  • chiclet keyboard — (hardware, abuse)   A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
  • chomp at the bit — champ at the bit (see phrase under champ1)
  • christmas beetle — any of various greenish-gold Australian scarab beetles of the genus Anoplognathus, which are common in summer
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • cigarette beetle — a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
  • city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
  • clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
  • clbuttic mistake — the humorous effect created by anti-obscenity filters that automatically replace offensive words in online articles with more acceptable variants
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • cocktail cabinet — a cupboard in which glasses and bottles are kept
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • concertina table — an extensible table having a hinged double top falling onto a hinged frame that unfolds like an accordion when pulled out.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
  • control variable — Also called control. Statistics. a person, group, event, etc., that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. Compare dependent variable (def 2), independent variable (def 2).
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • database machine — (hardware)   A computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel. This contrasts with a database server, which is a computer in a local area network that holds a database. The database machine is tightly coupled to the main CPU, whereas the database server is loosely coupled via the network.
  • debating chamber — a room where a legislative assembly holds debates
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • diethyl carbinol — a colorless, liquid isomer of amyl alcohol, (CH3CH2)2CHOH, used in drugs and as a solvent
  • dimethylcarbinol — isopropyl alcohol.
  • duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
  • electric blanket — electrically-heated bedcover
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
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