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14-letter words containing l, a, b, i, u

  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • noctambulation — Sleepwalking.
  • non-absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
  • non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
  • nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • 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).
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • 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 library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • 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
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • 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)
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • solubilization — the process whereby something becomes soluble or more soluble
  • somnambulation — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
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