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15-letter words containing s, e, a, b, r, d

  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • 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
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
  • 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)
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
  • marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • 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.
  • olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • 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
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • 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.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
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