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17-letter words containing b, l, i, s, t, e

  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • lobster thermidor — a dish of cooked lobster meat placed back in the shell with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated cheese and melted butter, and browned in the oven.
  • mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
  • mis en bouteilles — (of a wine) bottled by a specified château, shipper, etc.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • national assembly — the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
  • objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
  • old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
  • paleobiochemistry — the study of biochemical processes that occurred in fossil life forms.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • public assistance — government aid to the poor, disabled, or aged or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps.
  • public enterprise — economic activity by governmental organizations
  • public prosecutor — an officer charged with the conduct of criminal prosecution in the interest of the public.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
  • rhinoceros beetle — any of several scarabaeid beetles, especially of the genus Dynastes, which comprises the largest beetles, characterized by one or more horns on the head and prothorax.
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • roseate spoonbill — a tropical New World spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, having rose-colored plumage and a bare head.
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-permeability — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • spiritual bouquet — the spiritual presentation of a good work to another person.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • subsistence level — low standard of living
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
  • the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
  • the establishment — a group or class of people having institutional authority within a society, esp those who control the civil service, the government, the armed forces, and the Church: usually identified with a conservative outlook
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • the-invisible-man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
  • thistle butterfly — any nymphalid butterfly of the genus Vanessa, as the red admiral or painted lady.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • troilus butterfly — spicebush swallowtail.
  • tubercle bacillus — the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis.
  • tuberculin-tested — (of milk) produced by cows that have been certified as free of tuberculosis
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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