14-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e, y
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- learn by heart — memorize
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- liberty bailey — Liberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- penalty double — business double.
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- 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.
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- 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.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- 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.
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- 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.
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.