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14-letter words containing b, e, y

  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • inalienability — not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied; not alienable: inalienable rights, freedoms, and liberties; an inalienable territory; inalienable principles and values.
  • inalterability — Inalterableness.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • indeliberately — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
  • inheritability — capable of being inherited.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • intolerability — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
  • irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
  • irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • jersey barrier — a type of concrete barricade used especially as a highway divider to protect each side from traffic crossing over.
  • kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • 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.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • liberty baileyLiberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
  • 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.
  • 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 darblayCharles, 1726–1814, English organist, composer, and music historian.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
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