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14-letter words containing i, b, e

  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • rental library — lending library.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
  • 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
  • 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.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • 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.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
  • ribeirao preto — a city in SE Brazil.
  • 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.
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • roller bearing — a bearing consisting of cylindrical or tapered rollers running between races in two concentric rings, one of which is mounted on a rotating or oscillating part, as a shaft.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • 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)
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • 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.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • 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.
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
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