14-letter words containing a, t, r, b
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- retail banking — banking for individual customers
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- ribeirao preto — a city in SE Brazil.
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- 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
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- 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
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- 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.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
- slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
- soapbox orator — a person who makes a speech on, or as if on, a soapbox
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- south suburban — a city in SE West Bengal, in E India: a suburb of Calcutta.
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- 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.
- square bracket — bracket (def 3).
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
- stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.