15-letter words containing b, y, r, l
- city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
- 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
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
- contractibility — contractability
- controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
- 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
- cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
- 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.
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- 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
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- 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.
- hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.