13-letter words containing a, b, i, l, r
- tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
- tintinnabular — of or relating to bells or bell ringing.
- trail-blazing — A trail-blazing idea, event, or organization is new, exciting, and original.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
- transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
- treasury bill — 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.
- trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
- trial balloon — a statement, program, or the like issued publicly as a means of determining reactions in advance: The speech was a trial balloon for a new law.
- tricarboxylic — pertaining to a molecule that contains three carboxyl groups.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
- tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
- ultra-liberal — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
- ultrareliable — extremely reliable
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
- umbrella bird — any of several large trogons of the genus Cephalopterus, of Central and South America, as C. ornatus, having an umbrellalike crest above the head.
- umbrella pine — a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.
- unappreciable — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- undeliverable — capable of delivery.
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- unobliterated — to blot out or render undecipherable (writing, marks, etc.); efface.
- unperceivable — imperceptible
- unperceivably — imperceptibly
- unpolarizable — not capable of being polarized
- unpracticable — impracticable.
- unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- unreclaimable — not able to be reclaimed, reformed, or rescued from vice
- unreclaimably — in an unreclaimable manner
- unrectifiable — able to be rectified.
- unreliability — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
- unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
- unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- upgradability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- variable-rate — providing for changes in the interest rate, adjusted periodically in accordance with prevailing market conditions: a variable-rate mortgage.