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14-letter words containing l, y, o, n, b

  • double density — floppy disk
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • golden goodbye — A golden goodbye is the same as a golden handshake.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intolerability — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
  • irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • marine biology — science of sea life
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • mindbogglingly — In a mindboggling manner; in such a way as to boggle the mind; so as to be beyond comprehension or understanding.
  • monocarboxylic — containing one carboxyl group.
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • not sb's style — If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
  • penalty double — business double.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • 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
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • subconsciously — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • unconscionably — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
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