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15-letter words containing b, r, e, n, t, o

  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • represent-to-be — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • to be in arrear — to be late in payment
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
  • 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.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • tribromoethanol — a white, crystalline powder, C 2 H 3 Br 3 O, used as a basal anesthetic.
  • trinitrobenzene — any of three yellow crystalline compounds having the formula C 9 H 3 N 3 O 6 , capable of more explosive power and requiring more impact than TNT.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
  • turbinate bones — the thin scroll-shaped bones situated on the walls of the nasal passages
  • turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
  • uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
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