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14-letter words containing t, e, b

  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • keep sb posted — update regularly
  • keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • kick the habit — quit smoking
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • lake athabaska — a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • lamentableness — The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • learn by heart — memorize
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • let someone be — To let someone be means to leave them alone and not interfere in what they are doing.
  • lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • liberty bailey — Liberty Hyde, 1858–1954, U.S. botanist, horticulturist, and writer.
  • liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
  • 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
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
  • make a stab at — to make an attempt at
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • margaret brent — Margaret, 1600?–1671? U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.
  • marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
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