15-letter words containing b, e, l, t, r, i
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- 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.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- 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
- rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
- 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 steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- she'll be right — that's all right; not to worry
- 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.
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- 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.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- 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
- tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
- the lost tribes — the ten tribes deported from the N kingdom of Israel in 721 bc and believed never to have returned to Palestine
- thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
- thimble-rigging — a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
- thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.