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16-letter words containing bi

  • kirribilli house — the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • latent ambiguity — uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • non-cohabitation — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • obtuse bisectrix — See under bisectrix (def 1).
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
  • philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
  • pinpoint bombing — precision bombing.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
  • reaction turbine — a turbine driven by the reactive force of a fluid passing through the rotor blades.
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • rich tea biscuit — any of various semisweet biscuits
  • ring-billed gull — a North American gull, Larus delawarensis, having a black ring around the bill.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • robin's plantain — the rattlesnake weed, Hieracium venosum.
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • showbiz reporter — a journalist who writes about the entertainment industry
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
  • strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
  • substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • susceptibilities — emotional sensibilities; feelings
  • synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • to bite the dust — If you say that something has bitten the dust, you are emphasizing that it no longer exists or that it has failed.
  • to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
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