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15-letter words containing l, e, a, c, h, b

  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • detachable lens — a lens on a digital camera that can be separated from the camera itself, making it easier for the photographer to take certain types of shot. A cable usually connects the disconnected lens and camera
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • herbal medicine — the use of herbs to treat illness
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • interchangeable — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • interchangeably — (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other: interchangeable symbols.
  • john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • mechanical bank — a toy bank in which a coin is deposited by a mechanical process that is usually activated by pushing a lever.
  • megalithic tomb — a burial chamber constructed of large stones, either underground or covered by a mound and usually consisting of long transepted corridors (gallery graves) or of a distinct chamber and passage (passage graves). The tombs may date from the 4th millennium bc
  • merchantability — The state of being merchantable.
  • methylcobalamin — A cobalamin used to treat neuropathies.
  • monchengladbach — a city in W North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany.
  • nathaniel bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • nonexchangeable — capable of being exchanged.
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • richard gabriel — (person)   (Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic. Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc.. In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.). See also gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • the black death — a form of bubonic plague pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century, when it killed over 50 million people
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
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