16-letter words containing l, i, b, y
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
- take the liberty — do sth without permission
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
- triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- uninhabitability — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
- verbal auxiliary — an auxiliary verb, especially when considered as a member of a separate class of words used with verbs rather than as a special subclass of verbs.
- visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
- well-baby clinic — a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education and advice for parents of babies
- whiptail wallaby — a wallaby of NE Australia, Macropus parryi, with a long slender tail
- white globe lily — a bulbous Californian plant, Calochortus albus, of the lily family, having egg-shaped white flowers with a purplish base.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them