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15-letter words containing s, e, b, c

  • hard-shell crab — a crab, especially an edible crab, that has not recently molted and has a hard shell.
  • hendecasyllabic — having 11 syllables.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
  • 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.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
  • imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
  • 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.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • 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.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • 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.
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • 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
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • misbecomingness — the characteristic or state of being unbecoming or unattractive
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • 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.
  • new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
  • non combustible — not flammable.
  • non-combustible — not flammable.
  • non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
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