12-letter words containing r, y, e, b
- liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- libertyville — a town in NE Illinois.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
- mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- meshrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
- mob hysteria — the heightened and extreme emotions that can be experienced by people in a large crowd
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
- mother's boy — mama's boy.
- motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- noncelebrity — a person who is not a celebrity
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- obedientiary — The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
- olallieberry — a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.
- omega baryon — a negative baryon having a mass 3272 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of 8 X 10 -11 seconds.
- on your bike — away you go
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- phlebography — venography.
- polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
- polyribosome — polysome.
- port moresby — an independent republic in the W Pacific Ocean, comprising the E part of New Guinea and numerous near-lying islands, including the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and Bougainville and Buka in the Solomon Islands: a former Australian Trusteeship Territory; independent since 1975; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 178,260 sq. mi. (461,693 sq. km). Capital: Port Moresby.
- post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presbyterate — the office of a presbyter or elder.
- presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
- presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
- primary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- protuberancy — protuberance.