14-letter words containing d, a, r, b, l
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
- jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- 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.
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- madame darblay — Charles, 1726–1814, English organist, composer, and music historian.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- marble orchard — cemetery.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
- moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- needle bearing — an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them
- non-deliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- nonpredictable — Not predictable.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
- particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
- persian blinds — persiennes
- planning board — development group
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
- 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.