14-letter words containing a, b, s, c
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crystallizable — That can be crystallized.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- 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.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- excess baggage — luggage exceeding weight allowance
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
- horseshoe crab — a large marine arthropod, Limulus polyphemus, of shallow coastal waters of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having both compound and simple eyes, book gills, a stiff tail, and a brown carapace curved like a horseshoe: a living fossil related to the woodlouse.
- imparisyllabic — (of a noun) not composed of the same number of syllables in all of its inflected forms, as Latin corpus, corporis.