14-letter words containing b, e, l, y, a
- liberty bailey — Liberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- madame darblay — Charles, 1726–1814, English organist, composer, and music historian.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- marine biology — science of sea life
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
- paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- penalty double — business double.
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- 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
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- 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.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- 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.
- 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
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.