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14-letter words containing c, b, a, t, e, r

  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • rehoboth beach — a town in SE Delaware: beach resort.
  • relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • square bracket — bracket (def 3).
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • 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.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subsecretariat — an administrative department that assists and is subordinate to a secretariat.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
  • tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • ticket barrier — gate in train station
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • 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
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
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