14-letter words containing b, e, l, y, u
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
- obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- 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.
- penalty double — business double.
- 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.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- 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
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
- susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
- suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unmalleability — an unmalleable state or condition
- 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
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency