14-letter words containing c, r, i, b
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- public inquiry — an official enquiry, usually into a serious accident or other disaster, or into planning applications. Interested parties can attend, and contribute.
- public library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
- rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
- racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
- radiobroadcast — a broadcast by radio.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- rainbow-collar — being or of an employee who combines work or experience on the assembly line with more technical or administrative duties; having both blue-collar and white-collar duties or experience.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- 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
- 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.
- required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- ribbon-cutting — a ceremony marking the official opening of a site, the commencement of its construction, etc., typically involving the cutting of a ribbon suspended as across an entrance
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- 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
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- scheme library — (library) (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
- school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- self-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.