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14-letter words containing a, l, b

  • irreproachable — free from blame; not able to be reproached or censured.
  • irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
  • irrestrainable — That cannot be restrained.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • irritabilities — Plural form of irritability.
  • isabela island — an island in the Pacific Ocean, off the W coast of South America: the largest of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. 2250 sq. mi. (5827 sq. km).
  • jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • justiciability — (legal): The ability of a subject matter to be evaluated and resolved by a court.
  • justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
  • kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
  • kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • lake bangweulu — a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • lamentableness — The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
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