14-letter words containing a, u, b, r
- 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.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- 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
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- natural number — a positive integer or zero.
- natural rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nitrobacterium — Any of the several genera of bacteria in soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonium and organic nitrogen compounds to the more soluble nitrite and nitrate.
- non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- non-recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- non-returnable — not returnable.
- non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- nonbarbiturate — a drug that does not contain barbiturates
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- outboard motor — a portable gasoline engine with propeller and tiller, clamped on the stern of a boat.
- over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
- pas de bourree — a short running step.