15-letter words containing o, d, b, a, l
- counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
- decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
- deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
- decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
- decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
- delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
- dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
- double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
- double-barreled — having two barrels mounted side by side, as a shotgun.
- double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
- doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
- globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.