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15-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e, n

  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • detachable lens — a lens on a digital camera that can be separated from the camera itself, making it easier for the photographer to take certain types of shot. A cable usually connects the disconnected lens and camera
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • eight-bit clean — (software)   A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • 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)
  • great rebellion — English Civil War.
  • green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • 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.
  • identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
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