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15-letter words containing r, a, b, i, s

  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • nicobar islands — a group of 19 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of the Andaman Islands, with which they form a territory of India. Area: 1645 sq km (635 sq miles)
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • outer barrister — a barrister belonging to the outer bar.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
  • pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
  • ribier (grapes) — a large, black variety of European or Californian table grape (Vitis vinifera)
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • 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
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
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