15-letter words containing b, e, l, t
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
- gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- go to the block — to be beheaded
- great bear lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 12,275 sq. mi. (31,792 sq. km).
- great rebellion — English Civil War.
- green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- gutenberg bible — an edition of the Vulgate printed at Mainz before 1456, ascribed to Gutenberg and others: probably the first large book printed with movable type.
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
- halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
- harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
- hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- iceberg lettuce — a variety of lettuce having a cabbagelike head of crisp leaves.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
- inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.