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

  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • 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.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • 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.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
  • object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
  • oil-based paint — any paint made with a drying oil or solvent such as linseed
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • standard bearer — military: person who carries a flag
  • standard-bearer — an officer or soldier of an army or military unit who bears a standard.
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • to be seen dead — If you say that you wouldn't be seen dead or be caught dead in particular clothes, places, or situations, you are expressing strong dislike or disapproval of them.
  • to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
  • to sb's defense — If you come to someone's defense, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • uninhibitedness — the state or quality of being uninhibited
  • unsubstantiated — not substantiated; unproved or unverified: unsubstantiated allegations.
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