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14-letter words containing b, o, y, d, a

  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • 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.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
  • non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • penalty double — business double.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • public holiday — national day off work
  • record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • 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).
  • statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
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