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14-letter words containing b, a, u, e

  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the upper back — the part of the back between the shoulders
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • thorough brace — either of two strong braces or bands of leather supporting the body of a coach or other vehicle and connecting the front and back springs.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • tintinnabulate — to ring
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • un-cancellable — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
  • un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • uncommunicable — incommunicable.
  • unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
  • uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
  • uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
  • undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • undiminishable — unable to be diminished
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • unidentifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
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