0%

14-letter words containing s, i, e, r, a, b

  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • rainbow series — (publication)   Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
  • rainbow wrasse — a brightly coloured Mediterranean fish ( Coris julis) of the Labridae family
  • raise eyebrows — cause surprise
  • rammelsbergite — a mineral, essentially nickel diarsenide, NiAs 2 .
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • 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
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • rictal bristle — a bristlelike feather growing from the base of a bird's bill.
  • 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.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • 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.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • 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)
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • 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.
  • strike-breaker — A strike-breaker is a person who continues to work during a strike, or someone who takes over the work of a person who is on strike.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?