14-letter words containing l, a, y, b
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- 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.
- qabalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- racing bicycle — a bicycle designed for cycling on roads or taking part in road cycling races
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- rental library — lending library.
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- 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
- road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- 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
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
- shabby-looking — appearing old and in bad condition
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stability ball — a firm, very large, usually inflatable ball used in various exercises, chiefly to strengthen the back, pelvis, and abdominal muscles.
- stability pact — an agreement between the member states of the EU which have joined the single currency, the aim of which is to secure the currency's stability by imposing fines on member states whose budget deficits exceed 3 per cent of their gross domestic product
- 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.