15-letter words containing l, a, b, u, r, n
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- siberian squill — a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.
- sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
- tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- transubstantial — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
- tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
- turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- unconstrainable — unable to be confined
- uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- under the table — of, relating to, or for use on a table: a table lamp.
- under-the-table — transacted in secret or in an underhanded manner.
- unendurableness — the quality or state of being unendurable
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- unpronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- unrecommendable — not able to be recommended, supported, or endorsed
- unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- untransmissible — intransmissible
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- urban guerrilla — a member of any underground political group engaged in terrorism or violence in urban areas, especially during the 1970s.
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
- vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame