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15-letter words containing a, r, y, b, l

  • lambda-b baryon — a protonlike baryon containing a b quark; a neutral baryon with a mass 11,000 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.1 X 10 -12 seconds.
  • lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • large cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
  • 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.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lombardy poplar — a poplar, Populus nigra italica, having a columnar manner of growth, with branches erect and parallel.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
  • marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • 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.
  • mortality table — an actuarial table showing the percentage of persons who die at any given age, compiled from statistics on selected population groups or on former policyholders.
  • mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • programmability — capable of being programmed.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
  • roundaboutility — roundaboutness
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • 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.
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • 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
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
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