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14-letter words containing l, u, e, b

  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • 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
  • roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shoot the bull — exaggerations; lies; nonsense.
  • 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.
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • soluble tablet — A soluble tablet is a tablet that is designed to be dissolved in water before it is swallowed.
  • squeeze bottle — a flexible plastic bottle the contents of which can be forced out by squeezing.
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • 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.
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
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