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15-letter words containing t, r, e, b, l

  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
  • cardinal beetle — any of various large N temperate beetles of the family Pyrochroidae, such as Pyrochroa serraticornis, typically scarlet or partly scarlet in colour
  • caribbean plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, encompassing the Central American portion of North America, the Caribbean Sea, and the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, as well as the Leeward and Windward Islands; bordered north and south by the North and South American Plates and west by the Cocos Plate.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • cerebral cortex — the outermost layer of the cerebrum that is the locus of higher brain processes
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • child battering — child abuse in the form of battering
  • child-battering — the physical abuse of a child by a parent or guardian, as by beating.
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • 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.
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • colorado beetle — a black-and-yellow beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, that is a serious pest of potatoes, feeding on the leaves: family Chrysomelidae
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • 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.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • 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.
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • decubitus ulcer — a chronic ulcer of the skin and underlying tissues caused by prolonged pressure on the body surface of bedridden patients
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