15-letter words containing l, a, p, s, b
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- infeasible path — dead code
- inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
- insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
- irreparableness — The quality of being irreparable.
- japanese beetle — a small beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab family, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Japan, the adult of which feeds on the foliage of fruit and other trees, and the larva of which feeds on plant roots.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
- olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plasma membrane — cell membrane.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- san luis obispo — a city in W California.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
- snapping beetle — click beetle.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended