14-letter words containing a, b, l, t, i, n
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rationalizable — capable of being rationalized
- redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- rental library — lending library.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- solubilization — the process whereby something becomes soluble or more soluble
- somnambulation — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- substantialism — the doctrine that substantial noumena exist as a basis for phenomena.
- substantiality — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantialize — to make or become substantial or actual
- substitutional — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- sustainability — the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
- table mountain — a mountain in the Republic of South Africa, near Cape Town. 3550 feet (1080 meters).
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
- the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
- tintinnabulate — to ring
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
- tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
- unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- unavailability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.