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15-letter words containing c, a, n, i, b, l

  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
  • 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)
  • no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
  • non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • non-depreciable — capable of depreciating or being depreciated in value.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nonbiographical — not biographical, not relating to biography or events in a person's life
  • nonbiologically — in a nonbiological way, not in a biological way
  • noncommunicable — not communicable, especially with reference to a disease that is not transmitted through contact with an infected or afflicted person.
  • 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.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • objectionable-c — (abuse, humour, language)   A hackish take on "Objective C". Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like syntax, but lacks the flexibility of Smalltalk method calls, and (like many such efforts) comes frustratingly close to attaining the Right Thing without actually doing so.
  • obsidional coin — siege piece.
  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
  • pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
  • piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • thiocarbanilide — a gray powder, C 13 H 12 N 2 S, used as an intermediate in dyes and as an accelerator in vulcanization.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
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