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14-letter words containing t, i, b

  • norbert wienerNorbert, 1894–1964, U.S. mathematician: pioneer in cybernetics.
  • noticeableness — The quality of being noticeable.
  • nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • objective caml — (language)   (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
  • objective case — objective (def 2a).
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective test — a test consisting of factual questions requiring extremely short answers that can be quickly and unambiguously scored by anyone with an answer key, thus minimizing subjective judgments by both the person taking the test and the person scoring it.
  • objective-case — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • oblique motion — the relative motion of two melodic parts in which one remains in place or moves relatively little while the other moves more actively.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • obstructionist — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • occipital lobe — the most posterior lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, behind the parietal and temporal lobes.
  • octosyllabical — Alternative form of octosyllabic.
  • of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
  • omnibenevolent — All-loving, or infinitely good, usually in reference to a deity or supernatural being, for example, 'God'. Its use is often with regards to the divine triad, whereby a deity is described to be simultaneously omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. This triad is used especially with the Christian god, Yahweh.
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pax britannica — a peace imposed by Great Britain upon hostile nations, especially in the 19th century.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceptibility — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • permissibility — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phi beta kappa — a national honor society, founded in 1776, whose members are chosen, for lifetime membership, usually from among college undergraduates of high academic distinction.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
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