13-letter words containing l, a, y, b
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
- parabolically — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
- pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- pentasyllable — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- play hardball — baseball, as distinguished from softball.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- play-the-ball — a method for bringing the ball back into play after a tackle, in which the tackled player is allowed to stand up and kick or heel the ball behind him or her to a team-mate
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
- polysyllabism — a polysyllabic style or the use of multisyllabic words
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- preferability — more desirable.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- realizability — the ability of something to be realized
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- recallability — the quality of being recallable
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- retainability — to keep possession of.
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- san pablo bay — the N part of San Francisco Bay, in W California.
- sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
- seasonability — fact of being seasonable
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.