14-letter words containing b, e, l, t, d
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- football field — ground where soccer is played
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- hereditability — heritable.
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- indeliberately — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
- indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- non-deliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- non-indictable — liable to being indicted, as a person.
- nonestablished — without the official support of the government
- nonpredictable — Not predictable.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).