14-letter words containing b, a, e, l
- raster blaster — (hardware, jargon) (Cambridge) Specialised hardware for bitblt operations (a blitter). Allegedly inspired by "Rasta Blasta", British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a "boom box" or "ghetto blaster".
- rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
- rationalizable — capable of being rationalized
- reasonableness — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- 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.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- rental library — lending library.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- 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.
- rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
- rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
- 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.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- 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.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- 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.
- saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- 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.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.