14-letter words containing a, b, c, t, e
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
- hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- in the balance — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
- incapabilities — not capable.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- incontrollable — uncontrollable.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
- inexcitability — The quality of being inexcitable.
- inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
- interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
- interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- kick the habit — quit smoking
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- 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