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15-letter words containing r, e, s, c, i, b

  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • 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.
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • discernibleness — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
  • 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
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
  • imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
  • in the abstract — When you talk or think about something in the abstract, you talk or think about it in a general way, rather than considering particular things or events.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
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