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14-letter words containing c, y, b

  • 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).
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceptibility — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • piece by piece — gradually
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
  • practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • public holiday — national day off work
  • 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 utility — a business enterprise, as a public-service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Compare utility (def 3).
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • qabalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
  • racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • raspberry cane — a long thin stalk on which raspberries grow
  • 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
  • red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • 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.
  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • 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
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • 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.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • sherry cobbler — a cobbler drink made with sherry, sliced fruits, and ice.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • 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
  • 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.
  • subconsciously — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
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