15-letter words containing s, e, a, b, c
- hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
- hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
- 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.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- 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.
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- 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.
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
- 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.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- necrobacillosis — any disease of cattle, horses, sheep, and swine marked by necrotic areas in which a bacillus, Fusobacterium necrophorum, is found.
- non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- non-condensable — capable of being condensed.
- object database — a database format in which information is shown in the form of objects
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.