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

  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
  • gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • gilbert pattenGilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • harriet tubmanHarriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hereditability — heritable.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
  • hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritable — extreme irritability.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • impermeability — not permeable; impassable.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • in the bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • inalterability — Inalterableness.
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