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15-letter words containing b, e, l, i, t

  • camelot library — (library)  
  • cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
  • cardinal beetle — any of various large N temperate beetles of the family Pyrochroidae, such as Pyrochroa serraticornis, typically scarlet or partly scarlet in colour
  • caribbean plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, encompassing the Central American portion of North America, the Caribbean Sea, and the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, as well as the Leeward and Windward Islands; bordered north and south by the North and South American Plates and west by the Cocos Plate.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demolition bomb — a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
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