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14-letter words containing t, e, r, a, b, o

  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • ribeirao preto — a city in SE Brazil.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • roulette table — surface marked out for roulette
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • 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.
  • stealth bomber — a type of US military aircraft using advanced technology to render it virtually undetectable to sight, radar, or infrared sensors
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • 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.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • ten-acre block — a block of subdivided farming land, usually within commuting distance of a city, that provides a semirural way of life
  • tensor bandage — a wide elasticized bandage that supports injured joints
  • 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
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • to break ranks — If you say that a member of a group or organization breaks ranks, you mean that they disobey the instructions of their group or organization.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
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