14-letter words containing a, b, y, d
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- madame darblay — Charles, 1726–1814, English organist, composer, and music historian.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
- morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
- 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.
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- penalty double — business double.
- pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- 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.
- public holiday — national day off work
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- 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.
- turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.