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15-letter words containing n, e, s, t, b

  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • 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.
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
  • inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
  • indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inner barrister — a barrister belonging to the inner bar.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
  • intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • 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.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • 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.
  • labor relations — worker-employer relationship
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
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