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15-letter words containing t, i, b, e, s

  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cartier-bresson — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1908–2004, French photographer
  • cartridge brass — brass composed of about 70 percent copper and 30 percent zinc.
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
  • 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.
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • display cabinet — a cabinet in a shop, museum, etc, that displays items
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • 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 stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • 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
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • 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.
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