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

  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • close the books — to balance accounts in order to prepare a statement or report
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • 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.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double or quits — 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 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 stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • 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
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • 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.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • 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.
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