13-letter words containing i, n, s, e, b, l
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- confiscatable — confiscable
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- day blindness — hemeralopia.
- deducibleness — The quality of being deducible.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligement — disobligation
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- equitableness — The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- excitableness — The quality of being excitable, excitability.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- extensibility — The capability of being extended.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.