16-letter words containing a, b, y, i
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
- stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
- strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
- sysdeco mimer ab — (company) Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
- take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- tertiary bursary — a noncompetitive award granted to all pupils who have passed a university entrance examination
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- type ii diabetes — diabetes (def 4).
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
- verbal auxiliary — an auxiliary verb, especially when considered as a member of a separate class of words used with verbs rather than as a special subclass of verbs.
- well-baby clinic — a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education and advice for parents of babies
- whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
- white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them