15-letter words containing a, b, t, l
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
- irritable heart — cardiac neurosis.
- 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.
- japanese beetle — a small beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab family, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Japan, the adult of which feeds on the foliage of fruit and other trees, and the larva of which feeds on plant roots.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- 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.
- labor relations — worker-employer relationship
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
- ladybird beetle — ladybug.
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- league football — rugby league football
- liability limit — the highest amount that a liability insurer will pay on a single claim.
- liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
- liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
- low bandwidth x — (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
- low earth orbit — (communications) (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and Internet communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- maintainability — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- māori battalion — the Māori unit of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II
- marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.