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15-letter words containing a, b, s, o, n, t

  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
  • labor relations — worker-employer relationship
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • noise abatement — a set of strategies or techniques to reduce and control annoying or harmful noise in an environment
  • non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-substantive — a noun.
  • non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
  • north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • 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.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
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