15-letter words containing bi
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- rememberability — the quality of being easily remembered
- rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- ribier (grapes) — a large, black variety of European or Californian table grape (Vitis vinifera)
- robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
- robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
- roller cone bit — A roller cone bit is a tool used for crushing rock, which has three cones that rotate, with attached hardened metal teeth which break the rock into small pieces.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- 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.
- san luis obispo — a city in W California.
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
- social climbing — advancement of one's social status
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- sociobiological — of or relating to sociobiology
- subintellection — an implication that is more or less understood
- subintelligence — below average intelligence
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
- tararua biscuit — a tramper's home-made biscuit with a high calorie content
- the-arbitration — a comedy (c300 b.c.) by Menander, extant only as a fragment.
- thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
- to fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- 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.
- turbinate bones — the thin scroll-shaped bones situated on the walls of the nasal passages
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- 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
- unattainability — capable of being attained.
- uninhibitedness — the state or quality of being uninhibited
- unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- 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).
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.