15-letter words containing b, e, t, r, o
- countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counting number — natural number
- 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.
- cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
- destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
- double entendre — a double meaning.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double or quits — 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 printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
- 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-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
- double-entendre — a double meaning.
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
- elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
- 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
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
- executive board — administrative committee
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- 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.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- football player — sportsperson: plays football
- forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.