14-letter words containing t, a, b, u, l, r
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- 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.
- salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- 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.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- 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)
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- 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
- the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
- 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 plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- 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.
- uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unrecapturable — not able to be recaptured or brought back