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15-letter words containing b, y, l, e

  • butterfly table — a small occasional table, usually having a round or oval top, with drop leaves supported by swinging brackets pivoted to the stretchers and to the underside of the top.
  • butterfly valve — a disc that acts as a valve by turning about a diameter, esp one used as the throttle valve in a carburettor
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • cranberry glass — reddish-pink transparent glassware first made in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • dimethylbenzene — xylene.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
  • fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • football player — sportsperson: plays football
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
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