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15-letter words containing b, e, n, i, s

  • business centre — a place providing office facilities and services
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • business ethics — moral constraints on trading practices
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • business person — Business people are people who work in business.
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cartier-bresson — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1908–2004, French photographer
  • 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.
  • chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • 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.
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • discernibleness — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • dispensableness — The quality of being dispensable.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
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