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14-letter words containing a, n, b, r

  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • 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.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • general public — people in general
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • 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.
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • hasan al-basri — died 728 ad, Muslim religious thinker
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • horizontal bar — on a bar chart
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
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