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15-letter words containing b, l, a, c

  • 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.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • sociobiological — of or relating to sociobiology
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • un-come-at-able — not accessible
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
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