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15-letter words containing b, e, a, u, c

  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • parachute brake — a parachute opened horizontally from the tail of an airplane upon landing, used as an aid in braking. Also called parabrake. Compare drogue parachute (def 2).
  • 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
  • pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quasi-objective — 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.
  • queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • substance abuse — long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning; broadly, alcohol or drug addiction.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
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