14-letter words containing i, b, l, e
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- 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)
- tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
- tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
- terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
- the bible belt — those states of the S US where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant
- the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
- the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
- the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
- thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- thromboembolic — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- tilt-top table — a pedestal table having a top that can be tilted vertically.
- tintinnabulate — to ring
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- toilet cubicle — a very small enclosed area containing a toilet
- toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
- trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
- trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
- tumbler switch — electrical control
- turbo-electric — noting, pertaining to, or utilizing machinery that includes a generator driven by a turbine: turbo-electric engine; turbo-electric propulsion.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
- unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
- uncommunicable — incommunicable.
- unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
- uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- undiminishable — unable to be diminished
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unidentifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- unintelligible — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.
- unintelligibly — not intelligible; not capable of being understood.