14-letter words containing a, b, t, e, r, y
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- raspberry tart — a fruit tart made with raspberries
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rental library — lending library.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
- unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed