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15-letter words containing e, a, s, t, i, b

  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • 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.
  • illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
  • immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
  • inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
  • indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inner barrister — a barrister belonging to the inner bar.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • 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.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labor relations — worker-employer relationship
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
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