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14-letter words containing b, a, i, t, r

  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • ticket barrier — gate in train station
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • trans-siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unrestrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
  • unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.
  • urbanistically — of or relating to urbanism.
  • urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • vibratory mill — A vibratory mill is a machine for grinding something, in which the feed and grinding medium are between two surfaces which vibrate against each other.
  • vibroflotation — the use of a vibrating probe inserted into soil to prevent soil liquefaction, which can be a hazard in earthquakes
  • warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
  • weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
  • whirlpool bath — a bath in which the body is immersed in swirling water as therapy or for relaxation.
  • with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
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