15-letter words containing r, y, b, i
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- 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
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- 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.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- 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 lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- 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
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- 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.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- 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.
- sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
- sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- surabaya strait — a narrow strait in Indonesia, separating E Java and Madura Island
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
- trial by battle — a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge. It was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest and abolished in 1819