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

  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • sibling species — one of two or more species that closely resemble one another but whose members cannot interbreed successfully.
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subintellection — an implication that is more or less understood
  • subintelligence — below average intelligence
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • substance abuse — long-term, pathological use of alcohol or drugs, characterized by daily intoxication, inability to reduce consumption, and impairment in social or occupational functioning; broadly, alcohol or drug addiction.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • tennis bracelet — a bracelet consisting of a row of individually set, uniformly sized diamonds or other gemstones.
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the tall blacks — the international basketball team of New Zealand
  • the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • to do sb credit — If you say that something does someone credit, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.
  • to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
  • torsion balance — an instrument for measuring small forces, as electric attraction or repulsion, by determining the amount of torsion or twisting they cause in a slender wire or filament.
  • tortoise brooch — a domed, oval brooch worn in pairs by Viking women.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
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