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15-letter words containing b, i, l, t, h

  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • dimethylbenzene — xylene.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • 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)
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • 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.
  • hot-air balloon — passenger balloon
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • 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.
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • irritable heart — cardiac neurosis.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • lighthouse tube — a vacuum tube with the electrodes arranged in parallel layers closely spaced, giving a relatively high-power output at high frequencies.
  • lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
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