14-letter words containing a, d, i, b
- 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.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public holiday — national day off work
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
- radiobroadcast — a broadcast by radio.
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
- rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- 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
- rodrigo borgia — Cesare [che-zah-re] /ˈtʃɛ zɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1476?–1507, Italian cardinal, military leader, and politician.
- saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
- san bernardino — a city in S California.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- sidi-bel-abbes — a city in NW Algeria.
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- 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.
- tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
- 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.
- tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
- the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
- trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
- 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)