15-letter words containing a, b, s, c, e, i
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- 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
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- 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.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
- scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
- skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
- social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
- torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised