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

  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • 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
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
  • manubial column — a triumphal column decorated with spoils of the enemy.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • neurobiological — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
  • non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • noncommunicable — not communicable, especially with reference to a disease that is not transmitted through contact with an infected or afflicted person.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • 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
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
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