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14-letter words containing r, a, b, i, t, l

  • remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
  • 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.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • 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.
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • 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
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
  • saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
  • sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subterrestrial — underground; subterranean.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • tabularization — the act of tabularizing
  • take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
  • tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
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