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15-letter words containing b, a, s, i, c

  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
  • ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • 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.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • sociobiological — of or relating to sociobiology
  • 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.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • 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.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
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