15-letter words containing s, t, b, e, r
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
- 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)
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- great south bay — an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- 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.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- 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.
- inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- inner barrister — a barrister belonging to the inner bar.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- intractableness — The state of being intractable; intractability.
- intransmissible — incapable of being transmitted
- irresistibility — not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood: an irresistible impulse.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- 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.
- jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- labor relations — worker-employer relationship
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.