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15-letter words that end in le

  • darkling beetle — any of a family (Tenebrionidae) of sluggish, dark beetles that feed on plants at night
  • 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.
  • decorated style — a 14th-century style of English architecture characterized by the ogee arch, geometrical tracery, and floral decoration
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
  • dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
  • down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • electric needle — a surgical instrument for cutting tissue by the application of a high-frequency current
  • elm bark beetle — the bark-boring beetle (Scolytus multistriatus) that feeds on the bark of elm trees and carries Dutch elm disease
  • elm leaf beetle — a beetle (Pyrrhalta luteola) that feeds on the leaves of elm trees while in both its larval and adult stages
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • fit as a fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
  • flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • fort lauderdale — a city in SE Florida: seashore resort.
  • full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • golden triangle — (sometimes lowercase) an area of Southeast Asia encompassing parts of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, significant as a major source of opium and heroin.
  • grant's gazelle — a large gazelle, Gazella granti, with distinctive long curved horns, native to the eastern African plains.
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
  • greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
  • gutenberg bible — an edition of the Vulgate printed at Mainz before 1456, ascribed to Gutenberg and others: probably the first large book printed with movable type.
  • half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • hendecasyllable — a word or line of verse of 11 syllables.
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • highland cattle — a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
  • hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
  • in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • indisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or corrected by discipline
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • infinite baffle — a loudspeaker enclosure that totally separates sound emanating from the rear of the speaker cone from sound emanating in front, so as to prevent mutual interference.
  • injector nozzle — An injector nozzle is a fine sprayer through which fuel is injected into an engine.
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