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17-letter words containing a, d, b, l

  • interdental brush — a small brush that is used to clean between the teeth
  • invincible armada — Armada.
  • joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
  • kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • label edge router — (networking)   (LER) A device that sits at the edge of an MPLS domain, that uses routing information to assign labels to datagrams and then forwards them into the MPLS domain.
  • ladder-back chair — a chair with a back of two upright posts connected by horizontal slats
  • ladybird (beetle) — ladybug
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • lambdoidal suture — the lambda-shaped seam or line of joining between the occipital and two parietal bones at the back part of the skull.
  • lead acid battery — A lead acid battery is a 12-volt battery for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles consisting of lead-acid cells in series.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • liberal democracy — a democracy based on the recognition of individual rights and freedoms, in which decisions from direct or representative processes prevail in many policy areas
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • limited liability — a liability restricted by law or contract, as the liability of owners of shares in a corporation or limited company, or that of a special partner.
  • loose-leaf binder — a hard cover with metal rings inside which is used to hold loose pieces of paper
  • medical librarian — a person who works in a library of medical information kept for reference in a teaching hospital
  • medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
  • mental disability — a general or specific intellectual handicap, resulting directly or indirectly from injury to the brain or from abnormal neurological development
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
  • movable-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do can be transposed to the tonic of any key.
  • never looked back — If you say that someone did something and then never looked back, you mean that they were very successful from that time on.
  • non-biodegradable — capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: biodegradable paper; biodegradable detergent.
  • nonunderstandable — Not understandable.
  • not bat an eyelid — When something surprising or shocking happens, if someone doesn't bat an eyelid in British English, or doesn't bat an eye in American English, they remain calm and do not show any reaction.
  • old orchard beach — a resort town in S Maine.
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • on the barrelhead — upon being presented for sale; at the time of delivery
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • product liability — the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product.
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • red and the black — a novel (1832) by Stendhal.
  • red-billed quelea — any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Quelea, especially Q. quelea (red-billed quelea) noted for its vast flocks that destroy grain crops.
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • russell, bertrand — Bertrand Russell
  • sable island pony — a variety of wild pony found on Sable Island, Nova Scotia
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • saved by the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
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