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

  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • 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.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
  • immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • in a (bad) spot — in a bad situation; in trouble
  • 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.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
  • inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
  • inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • inconsolability — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • inner barrister — a barrister belonging to the inner bar.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
  • intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • 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.
  • it's a good job — If you say it's a good thing, or in British English it's a good job, that something is the case, you mean that it is fortunate.
  • 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.
  • jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • 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.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
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