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

  • 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.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • 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)
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • 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)
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • 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.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • 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.
  • illimitableness — The quality of being illimitable; absence of limits.
  • immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
  • 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.
  • in the box seat — in the best position
  • inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
  • inalterableness — The state or quality of being inalterable.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
  • indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • 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.
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