14-letter words containing a, b, u, s
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- 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.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- 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.
- insurmountably — 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.
- justiciability — (legal): The ability of a subject matter to be evaluated and resolved by a court.
- justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- 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.
- labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
- lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages