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15-letter words containing s, e, t, l, a

  • battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • bedsheet ballot — a very long, involved paper ballot
  • beefsteak plant — an Asian plant, Perilla frutescens crispa, with aromatic red or green leaves which are used in cooking: family Lamiaceae
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • best-ball match — a match, scored by holes, in which one player competing against two or more others must score lower than the lowest scoring opponent to win a hole.
  • bias (ply) tire — a motor vehicle tire having a foundation of plies of rubberized cords in a crisscross pattern of lines diagonal to the center line of the tread
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • blast injection — the injection of liquid fuel directly into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine using a blast of high-pressure air to atomize the spray of fuel
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • bravais lattice — any of 14 possible space lattices found in crystals
  • breakfast table — You refer to a table as the breakfast table when it is being used for breakfast.
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp
  • building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
  • cadmium sulfate — a water-soluble compound, CdSO 4 , of colorless crystals, used as an antiseptic.
  • cafeteria-style — set up to allow a variety of choices.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • calcareous tufa — tufa
  • calcium sulfate — Calcium sulfate is a white crystalline salt, used as a tablet diluent.
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • calliper splint — a splint consisting of two metal rods with straps attached, for supporting or exerting tension on the leg
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • capital expense — A capital expense is the cost of acquiring or making improvements to fixed assets.
  • capital letters — a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r : used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc.
  • cardinal system — a system of coding navigational aids by shape, color, and number, according to their positions relative to navigational hazards.
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian plane — Usually, Cartesian coordinates. a member of a system of coordinates for locating a point on a plane (Cartesian plane) by its distance from each of two intersecting lines, or in space by its distance from each of three planes intersecting at a point.
  • cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
  • cast a spell on — to put into, or as into, a trance
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • categoricalness — The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • central casting — a nominal casting agency that delivers stereotypes to films or, figuratively, to real life situations
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
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