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18-letter words containing a, b, y

  • clay-colored robin — any of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, especially Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
  • climbing hydrangea — a woody vine, Hydrangea anomala, of eastern Asia, having shiny, egg-shaped leaves and flat-topped white flower clusters, and climbing by aerial rootlets.
  • complementary base — either of the nucleotide bases linked by a hydrogen bond on opposite strands of DNA or double-stranded RNA: guanine is the complementary base of cytosine, and adenine is the complementary base of thymine in DNA and of uracil in RNA.
  • corpus christi bay — a bay in S Texas, at the mouth of the Nueces River.
  • credibility rating — a supposed measure of how far a person can be believed or trusted
  • cyrano de bergerac — Savinien (savinjɛ̃). 1619–55, French writer and soldier, famous as a duellist and for his large nose. He became widely known through the verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand
  • death by chocolate — a very rich type of chocolate dessert or cake
  • decachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) The fully chlorinated polychlorinated biphenyl containing ten chlorine atoms.
  • deferred liability — income received in advance and carried forward as a liability until the associated goods, services, or benefits are delivered
  • depository library — a library designated by law to receive without charge all or a selection of the official publications of a government.
  • disability pension — a pension paid to people who are unable to continue to work because of a disability
  • distinguishability — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • embryonic membrane — any of several living membranes enclosing or closely associated with the developing vertebrate embryo, as the allantois, amnion, yolk sac, etc.
  • eyeball to eyeball — If you are eyeball to eyeball with someone, you are in their presence and involved in a meeting, dispute, or contest with them. You can also talk about having an eyeball to eyeball meeting or confrontation.
  • fantasy basketball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • farmer-labor party — a political party in Minnesota, founded in 1920 and merged with the Democratic Party in 1944.
  • gamblers anonymous — an organization that holds group meetings to help people who are addicted to gambling
  • gettysburg address — the notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa.
  • grand traverse bay — an inlet of Lake Michigan on the NW of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
  • happy as a sandboy — very happy; high-spirited
  • hardy-weinberg law — a principle stating that in an infinitely large, randomly mating population in which selection, migration, and mutation do not occur, the frequencies of alleles and genotypes do not change from generation to generation.
  • have by the throat — to have compete control over (a person or thing)
  • have money to burn — to have more money than one needs, so that some can be spent foolishly
  • head disk assembly — (hardware, storage)   (HDA) A sealed, high capacity mainframe hard disk with integral heads, as opposed to a removable disk.
  • hexachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of forty-two isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing six chlorine atoms.
  • highbush cranberry — a shrub, Viburnum trilobum, of northern North America, having broad clusters of white flowers and edible scarlet berries.
  • histocompatibility — the condition of having antigenic similarities such that cells or tissues transplanted from one (the donor) to another (the recipient) are not rejected.
  • honorable ordinary — any of the ordinaries believed to be among those that are oldest or that were the source of the other ordinaries, as the chief, pale, fess, bend, chevron, cross, and saltire.
  • hydrofluorocarbons — Plural form of hydrofluorocarbon.
  • hyperbaric chamber — a steel vessel in which atmospheric pressure can be raised or lowered by air compressors, used to treat divers or pilots afflicted with aeroembolism and to provide high-oxygen environments for certain medical treatments and operations.
  • hyperbilirubinemia — an abnormally high level of bilirubin in the blood, manifested by jaundice, anorexia, and malaise, occurring in association with liver disease and certain hemolytic anemias.
  • in all probability — the quality or fact of being probable.
  • in company with sb — If you feel, believe, or know something in company with someone else, you both feel, believe, or know it.
  • incapacity benefit — (in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability
  • incommensurability — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
  • indolebutyric acid — a white or yellowish, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 12 H 13 O 2 N, a plant hormone similar to indoleacetic acid and used for the same purposes.
  • informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
  • interchangeability — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interdependability — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
  • invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
  • kentucky bluegrass — a grass, Poa pratensis, of the Mississippi valley, used for pasturage and lawns.
  • known lazy bastard — (abuse)   (KLB) A term, used among technical support staff, for a user who repeatedly asks for help with problems whose solutions are clearly explained in the documentation, and persists in doing so after having been told to RTFM. KLBs are singled out for special treatment (i.e. ridicule), especially if they have been heard to say "It's so boring to read the manual! Why don't you just tell me?". The deepest pit in Hell is reserved for KLBs whose questions reveal total ignorance of the basic concepts (e.g., "How do I make a font in Excel?", "Where do I turn on my RAM?"), and who refuse to accept that their questions are neither simple nor well-formed.
  • lincoln's birthday — February 12, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • logically possible — capable of being described without self-contradiction
  • lonely hearts club — a club for people who are trying to find a lover or a friend
  • lowell observatory — the astronomical observatory, situated in Flagstaff, Arizona, at which Pluto was discovered in 1930.
  • madeira embroidery — broderie anglaise.
  • metabolic syndrome — Pathology. a group of medical conditions present simultaneously in a patient, as high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol levels, and an excess of abdominal fat, that increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Also called insulin resistance syndrome.
  • mobile data system — a system consisting of a client computer requesting information and a server supplying this information
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