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15-letter words containing a, b, i, l, t

  • detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
  • great rebellion — English Civil War.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • hot-air balloon — passenger balloon
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
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