15-letter words containing b, i, n, d
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- indicator board — a device that shows information, such as the arrival and departure times of trains or planes
- indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indirect object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing with reference to which the action of a verb is performed, in English generally coming between the verb and the direct object and paraphrasable as the object of a preposition, usually to or for, following the direct object, as the boy in He gave the boy a book.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
- leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
- library binding — a tough, durable cloth binding for books. Compare edition binding.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- low bandwidth x — (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
- mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- marie byrd land — former name of Byrd Land.
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
- medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
- monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
- night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly