14-letter words containing l, a, b, y
- blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
- blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- bornyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 12 H 20 O 2 , having a piny, camphorlike odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfume, and as a plasticizer.
- bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
- bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
- boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
- boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
- brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- brazilian ruby — a light-rose spinel used as a gem: not a true ruby.
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- british malaya — a comprehensive term for the former British possessions on the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Archipelago: now part of Malaysia.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- cabalistically — In a cabalistic manner.
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
- celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
- collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
- comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- correctability — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- countably many — countable
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical