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14-letter words containing b, e, n, i

  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • liberal-minded — espousing liberal views and policies
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • linear algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • make a bargain — to agree on terms
  • malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
  • man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • marine biology — science of sea life
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • messier number — a number (preceded by M) designating the 109 double stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the Messier catalog.
  • methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
  • mexican bamboo — a hardy plant, Polygonum cuspidatum, of the buckwheat family, native to Japan, having small, greenish-white flowers and tending to escape from cultivation.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • misremembering — Present participle of misremember.
  • misremembrance — An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
  • mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • mixed blessing — something that, although generally favorable or advantageous, has one or more unfavorable or disadvantageous features.
  • mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
  • mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moon blindness — a disease of horses in which the eyes suffer from recurring attacks of inflammation, eventually resulting in opacity and blindness.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
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