14-letter words containing t, a, s, b, l
- sabbath school — Sunday school.
- 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.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- 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.
- saddle blanket — a saddle-shaped pad, as of felt or sheepskin, placed beneath the saddle to prevent it from irritating the horse's skin.
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- 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.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- 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.
- slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- solubilization — the process whereby something becomes soluble or more soluble
- soluble tablet — A soluble tablet is a tablet that is designed to be dissolved in water before it is swallowed.
- somnambulation — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- stability ball — a firm, very large, usually inflatable ball used in various exercises, chiefly to strengthen the back, pelvis, and abdominal muscles.
- stability pact — an agreement between the member states of the EU which have joined the single currency, the aim of which is to secure the currency's stability by imposing fines on member states whose budget deficits exceed 3 per cent of their gross domestic product
- stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
- starch blocker — a substance ingested in the belief that it inhibits the body's ability to metabolize starch and thereby promotes weight loss: declared illegal in the U.S. by the FDA.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
- 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.
- 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.
- subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
- 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.
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- substantialism — the doctrine that substantial noumena exist as a basis for phenomena.
- substantiality — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantialize — to make or become substantial or actual
- substitutional — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- subterrestrial — underground; subterranean.
- supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- sustainability — the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- 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.
- tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
- take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- talk about sth — You can say talk about before mentioning a particular expression or situation, when you mean that something is a very striking or clear example of that expression or situation.
- terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium