14-letter words containing b, e, l, y, o
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient
- 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
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- not sb's style — If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.
- obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- 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
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- penalty double — business double.
- 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.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- 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.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- sherry cobbler — a cobbler drink made with sherry, sliced fruits, and ice.
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- unreconcilably — in an unreconcilable manner
- xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- yellow warbler — a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts.
- yellow-bellied — having a yellow abdomen or underside.
- yttrocolumbite — Yttrotantalite.