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14-letter words containing a, b, s, i, t

  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • 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.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • hamilton bassoHamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • immobilisation — Alternative spelling of immobilization.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • inadvisability — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
  • incapabilities — not capable.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
  • inhabitiveness — the disposition to remain in one place; the inclination not to leave home
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