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14-letter words containing a, b, s, e, n

  • 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.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put 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.
  • saint benedict — Saint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • sanibel island — an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the SW coast of Florida. 16 sq. mi. (41.5 sq. km).
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • screen blanker — screen saver
  • second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sergeant baker — a large brightly-coloured fish of the genus Latropiscis, found in temperate reef waters of Australasia
  • serpent bearer — the constellation Ophiuchus.
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
  • soba (noodles) — Japanese noodles containing buckwheat flour
  • specbase_int92 — A variant of SPECint92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
  • square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stage business — business (def 10).
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • 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.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
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