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14-letter words containing a, n, b, r

  • record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
  • redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • rental library — lending library.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • room and board — lodging and meals.
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • 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.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • 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.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • serpent bearer — the constellation Ophiuchus.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
  • slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
  • slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
  • smash-and-grab — A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them.
  • 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.
  • south suburban — a city in SE West Bengal, in E India: a suburb of Calcutta.
  • spanish arabic — the Arabic language as used in Spain during the period of Moorish domination and influence, c900–1500. Abbreviation: SpAr.
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