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15-letter words containing n, i, r, e, b

  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
  • rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
  • september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • siberian squill — a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • 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.
  • sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • 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
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
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