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15-letter words containing s, a, b, l

  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
  • japanese beetle — a small beetle, Popillia japonica, of the scarab family, introduced into the eastern U.S. from Japan, the adult of which feeds on the foliage of fruit and other trees, and the larva of which feeds on plant roots.
  • jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • kaibab squirrel — a nearly extinct tree squirrel, Sciurus kaibabensis, found only in a small area north of the Grand Canyon.
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • labor relations — worker-employer relationship
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
  • lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • no holds barred — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
  • non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • non-condensable — capable of being condensed.
  • non-exhaustible — to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person: I have exhausted myself working.
  • non-falsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
  • nonsedimentable — incapable of being sedimented
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