14-letter words containing a, b, i, l
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- exploitability — The state or condition of being exploitable.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- football field — ground where soccer is played
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- general public — people in general
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.