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15-letter words containing ab

  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • butterfly table — a small occasional table, usually having a round or oval top, with drop leaves supported by swinging brackets pivoted to the stretchers and to the underside of the top.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • cabin attendant — flight attendant.
  • cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
  • cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • casual labourer — a person who is employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • characterizable — Able to be characterized.
  • charles babbage — Charles, 1792–1871, English mathematician: invented the precursor of the modern computer.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chinese cabbage — a Chinese plant, Brassica pekinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has crisp edible leaves growing in a loose cylindrical head
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • congealableness — the quality of being congealable
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
  • controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
  • database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • delabialization — the result or process of delabializing.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • detachable lens — a lens on a digital camera that can be separated from the camera itself, making it easier for the photographer to take certain types of shot. A cable usually connects the disconnected lens and camera
  • determinability — the quality of being determinable
  • disestablishing — Present participle of disestablish.
  • dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
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