14-letter words containing b, e, r, n, s
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- 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
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- 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.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
- 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
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- henry bessemer — Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- 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.
- incense bearer — a person who carries the censer at religious ceremonies
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexpressibles — underwear
- inner hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.