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15-letter words containing is

  • balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
  • ballet mistress — a woman who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
  • bedloe's island — Liberty Island
  • belief revision — (artificial intelligence)   The area of theory change in which preservation of the information in the theory to be changed plays a key role. A fundamental issue in belief revision is how to decide what information to retract in order to maintain consistency, when the addition of a new belief to a theory would make it inconsistent. Usually, an ordering on the sentences of the theory is used to determine priorities among sentences, so that those with lower priority can be retracted. This ordering can be difficult to generate and maintain. The postulates of the AGM Theory for Belief Revision describe minimal properties a revision process should have.
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • bench scientist — a scientist who does experiments in a laboratory
  • beurre noisette — a sauce of butter cooked until golden or nut brown, sometimes flavored with capers, vinegar, herbs, etc.
  • biogeochemistry — the science of biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the environment
  • biopsychologist — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biostatistician — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biostatistics
  • biscuit tortoni — an individual portion of tortoni, frozen and served in a small cup, often topped with ground almonds.
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blood poisoning — Blood poisoning is a serious illness resulting from an infection in your blood.
  • bombing mission — a major bomb attack on a specific target or series of targets
  • borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
  • bourbon biscuit — a rich chocolate-flavoured biscuit with a chocolate-cream filling
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • braille display — (hardware)   (Or "refreshable braille display", "refreshable display") An electromechanical device that renders braille with tiny, independently controlled pins used to represent the state of dots in braille cells. Each pin, in its "on" state, raises above the top of its hole in the screen; in its "off" state, it drops below the top of its hole. Older systems used tiny solenoids to control the state of the pins; modern systems are piezoelectric. Typical dimensions of a braille display are 1 line of 40 cells, each cell of two-by-eight dots.
  • bravais lattice — any of 14 possible space lattices found in crystals
  • brights-disease — a disease characterized by albuminuria and heightened blood pressure.
  • brill's disease — a form of epidemic typhus fever in which the disease recurs years after the original infection
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bristol fashion — clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
  • british america — British North America.
  • british council — an organization founded (1934) to extend the influence of British culture and education throughout the world
  • british english — the English language as spoken and written in England and as distinguished esp. from American English
  • british library — the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
  • british telecom — the popular name for British Telecommunications Group plc, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband internet provider in the United Kingdom
  • brush discharge — a slightly luminous electrical discharge between points of high charge density when the charge density is insufficient to cause a spark or around sharp points on a highly charged conductor because of ionization of air molecules in their vicinity
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • caisson disease — decompression sickness
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • canadian whisky — a blended whisky made in Canada from rye and other grains
  • canisterization — the process of putting (something) into a canister or canisters
  • cannibalisation — Alternative form of cannibalization.
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • capitulationism — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • capitulationist — advocacy or approval of capitulation.
  • careers adviser — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp in secondary, further, or higher education
  • catalina island — Santa Catalina.
  • catastrophising — Present participle of catastrophise.
  • categorisations — Plural form of categorisation.
  • catheterisation — Alternative spelling of catheterization.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
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