14-letter words containing a, b, s, t, e, r
- 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.
- 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.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- irrestrainable — That cannot be restrained.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- irritabilities — Plural form of irritability.
- james breasted — James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- marketableness — The state or quality of being marketable.
- master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- morale booster — You can refer to something that makes people feel more confident and cheerful as a morale booster.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- nonobstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated