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15-letter words containing a, b, y

  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • 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.
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • surabaya strait — a narrow strait in Indonesia, separating E Java and Madura Island
  • susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • test ban treaty — a treaty which bans nations testing some or all types of nuclear weapons
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • trial by battle — a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge. It was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest and abolished in 1819
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • type 1 diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • type 2 diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
  • type i diabetes — diabetes (def 3).
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unattainability — capable of being attained.
  • unchallengeably — in a way that cannot be challenged; in an unchallengeable manner
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • unobjectionably — without objection
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
  • urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
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