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14-letter words containing b, e, l, s

  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • 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".
  • reasonableness — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • 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.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • self-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
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