14-letter words containing b, e, s, n
- 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
- hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
- have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- 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.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
- in-betweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
- incapabilities — not capable.
- incense bearer — a person who carries the censer at religious ceremonies
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- inclinableness — a readiness to be inclined or persuaded
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- inconscionable — Obsolete form of unconscionable.
- inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
- inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- 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.
- indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.
- inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
- inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
- inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
- inexpressibles — underwear
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.