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15-letter words containing b, s, d

  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • no holds barred — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • non-condensable — capable of being condensed.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • 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.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-established — established for a long time
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
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