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15-letter words containing y, a, r, b

  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • rib-eye (steak) — a beefsteak cut from the rib section, with the bone removed
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
  • roundaboutility — roundaboutness
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sabbatical year — Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
  • set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
  • sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • surabaya strait — a narrow strait in Indonesia, separating E Java and Madura Island
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • test ban treaty — a treaty which bans nations testing some or all types of nuclear weapons
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • trial by battle — a method of trying an accused person or of settling a dispute by a personal fight between the two parties involved or, in some circumstances, their permitted champions, in the presence of a judge. It was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest and abolished in 1819
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
  • urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
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