15-letter words containing b, i, t, y
- morbidity table — A morbidity table is a statistical table that shows the proportion of people that are expected to become sick or injured at each age.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- mortality table — an actuarial table showing the percentage of persons who die at any given age, compiled from statistics on selected population groups or on former policyholders.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- nonavailability — A lack of availability.
- noncontributory — pertaining to or of the nature of contribution; contributing.
- nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
- piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.