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15-letter words containing i, n, e, b

  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • non-responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • non-substantive — a noun.
  • non-susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • nonattributable — not capable of being attributed to a particular source or cause
  • nonbelligerency — the state or status of not participating in a war.
  • 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.
  • noncompressible — not able to be compressed
  • nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
  • not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
  • novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
  • 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.
  • object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
  • object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
  • objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
  • 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.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • peroxide blonde — You can refer to a woman whose hair has been artificially been made lighter in colour as a peroxide blonde, especially when you want to show that you disapprove of this, or that you think her hair looks unnatural or unattractive.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
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