15-letter words containing a, d, l, i, b
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
- 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.
- judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- ladybird beetle — ladybug.
- 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
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- lira da braccio — a many-stringed musical instrument of the 15th and 16th centuries, played with a bow and used for polyphonic improvisation.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- low bandwidth x — (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
- make a big deal — If someone makes a big deal out of something, they make a fuss about it or treat it as if it were very important.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)