14-letter words containing a, d, r, b, i
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- free as a bird — really free
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- 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.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
- hereditability — heritable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- i'll be darned — You can say I'll be darned to show that you are very surprised about something.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- indeliberately — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
- indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- intraabdominal — Within the cavity of the abdomen.
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage