14-letter words containing a, b, s, o
- 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
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- 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.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- 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.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- 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.
- hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
- have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hold sb's hand — If you ask someone to hold your hand at an event that you are worried about, you ask them to support you by being there with you.
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- 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.
- hoshana rabbah — the seventh day of the Jewish festival of Sukkoth, occurring on the twenty-first day of Tishri and having a special liturgy containing a series of invocations to God for forgiveness and salvation.
- 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.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.