14-letter words containing a, b, e, r, n
- irrestrainable — That cannot be restrained.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- learn by heart — memorize
- leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- linear algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- make a bargain — to agree on terms
- make-and-break — noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.
- malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
- man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- margaret brent — Margaret, 1600?–1671? U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.
- marine biology — science of sea life
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural number — a positive integer or zero.
- natural rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- needle bearing — an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them
- negri sembilan — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 2580 sq. mi. (6682 sq. km). Capital: Seremban.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.