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14-letter words containing b, a, n

  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • tabularization — the act of tabularizing
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • terebinthinate — of, relating to, or resembling turpentine.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • 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.
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • tintinnabulate — to ring
  • to break ranks — If you say that a member of a group or organization breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or organization.
  • 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.
  • 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 bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
  • tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • un-cancellable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
  • un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
  • 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
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • 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.
  • unavailability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • uncommunicable — incommunicable.
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