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14-letter words containing l, a, b, r

  • 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)
  • salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
  • salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
  • 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
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • shoulder blade — the scapula.
  • shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
  • slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
  • spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
  • starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • 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.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • 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.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subterrestrial — underground; subterranean.
  • sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • tabularization — the act of tabularizing
  • 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.
  • tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
  • 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)
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
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