15-letter words containing b, o, a, t, d, e
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- departure board — a board in an airport, bus terminal, etc displaying the times and destinations of future departures
- destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
- double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- executive board — administrative committee
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- go by the board — If something goes by the board, it is rejected or ignored, or is no longer possible.
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hype-carbonated — (of a product or service) overvalued as a result of relentless marketing and PR or intensive media exposure
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- matrix bar code — a type of 2D bar code that stores data in a matrix of geometrically shaped dark and light cells that represent bits. See also QR code.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- moderate breeze — a wind of 13–18 miles per hour (5.8–8 m/sec).
- 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.
- nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
- obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
- object database — a database format in which information is shown in the form of objects
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.