14-letter words containing a, b, s, o, l
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- 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.
- disposableness — Disposability.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- dissociability — Lack of sociability; unsociableness.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.