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14-letter words containing b, y, t

  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • 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.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stability ball — a firm, very large, usually inflatable ball used in various exercises, chiefly to strengthen the back, pelvis, and abdominal muscles.
  • stability pact — an agreement between the member states of the EU which have joined the single currency, the aim of which is to secure the currency's stability by imposing fines on member states whose budget deficits exceed 3 per cent of their gross domestic product
  • statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • substantiality — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
  • substitutivity — the principle that expressions with the same reference can be substituted for one another without affecting the truth-value of any context in which they occur
  • suggestibility — subject to or easily influenced by suggestion.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • sustainability — the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • test-tube baby — an infant developed from an ovum fertilized in vitro and implanted into a woman's uterus, usually that of the biological mother.
  • 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.
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
  • trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • 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.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
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