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

  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
  • probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
  • pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • rechargeability — (of a storage battery) capable of being charged repeatedly. Compare cordless (def 2).
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • 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
  • rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • 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)
  • 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 steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
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