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15-letter words containing t, b

  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • double entendre — a double meaning.
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • 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 knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • 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 or quits — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • 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).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • double-declutch — to change to a lower gear in a motor vehicle by first placing the gear lever into the neutral position before engaging the desired gear, at the same time releasing the clutch pedal and increasing the engine speed
  • double-entendre — a double meaning.
  • 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.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • dumdum (bullet) — a soft-nosed bullet that expands when it hits, inflicting a large, jagged wound
  • eat like a bird — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • edition binding — a decorative binding for books, often of leather or simulated leather.
  • 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.
  • elaborated code — a way of talking which is explicit and does not assume that the listener shares the same assumptions and understandings as the speaker
  • 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
  • electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
  • eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
  • eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
  • elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
  • elm leaf beetle — a beetle (Pyrrhalta luteola) that feeds on the leaves of elm trees while in both its larval and adult stages
  • embedded system — (computer)   Hardware and software which forms a component of some larger system and which is expected to function without human intervention. A typical embedded system consists of a single-board microcomputer with software in ROM, which starts running some special purpose application program as soon as it is turned on and will not stop until it is turned off (if ever). An embedded system may include some kind of operating system but often it will be simple enough to be written as a single program. It will not usually have any of the normal peripherals such as a keyboard, monitor, serial connections, mass storage, etc. or any kind of user interface software unless these are required by the overall system of which it is a part. Often it must provide real-time response.
  • 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.
  • engagement book — couple
  • enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • ethyl carbamate — a colourless odourless crystalline ester that is used in the manufacture of pesticides, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals. Formula: CO(NH2)OC2H5
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • exchangeability — The condition of being exchangeable.
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • exhibition game — In sports, an exhibition game is a game that is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  • exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
  • exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • 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.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
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