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15-letter words containing s, i, l, b

  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
  • questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • saint elisabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
  • saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • san luis obispo — a city in W California.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
  • self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
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