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14-letter words containing b, a, s, t, r, d

  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • 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
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
  • flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • 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.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • james breastedJames Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • 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.
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • radiobroadcast — a broadcast by radio.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
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