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15-letter words containing b, u, i, l, d

  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
  • judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • liberal studies — a supplementary arts course for those specializing in scientific, technical, or professional studies
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • roundaboutility — roundaboutness
  • 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.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • underpublicized — lacking publicity
  • undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • 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).
  • urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
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