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

  • 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.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • detachable lens — a lens on a digital camera that can be separated from the camera itself, making it easier for the photographer to take certain types of shot. A cable usually connects the disconnected lens and camera
  • 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 one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • 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 saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • 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
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • Évian-les-bains — a resort and spa town in E France, on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne; noted for its bottled mineral waters. Pop: 8064 (2006)
  • exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • fresnel biprism — biprism.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
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