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15-letter words containing b, a, l, d, i, e

  • 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.
  • 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 edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • old-established — established for a long time
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • richard gabriel — (person)   (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • single-sideband — of or pertaining to a system of radio transmission in which one of the two sidebands produced during modulation is suppressed
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
  • undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
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