14-letter words containing a, e, r, o, b, s
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- 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
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- 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
- 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.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- 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.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- 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.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- 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.
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- 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
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.