14-letter words containing a, b, u, s, e
- 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
- 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
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- 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
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- 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
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
- keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- 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
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- non-consumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.