13-letter words containing b, e, l, i, n
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
- embryonically — In an embryonic way.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enrolled bill — draft legislation approved in identical form by both houses and sent to the President for approval
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
- equitableness — The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- examinability — The quality or state of being examinable.
- exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- excitableness — The quality of being excitable, excitability.
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- extendability — Extensibility.
- extensibility — The capability of being extended.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- finback whale — rorqual
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.