14-letter words containing b, e, t, n, d
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
- debugging tool — debugger
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- detestableness — The state or quality of being detestable.
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- dinitrobenzene — any of three isomeric benzene derivatives having the formula C 6 H 4 NO 2 , made by nitration of benzene or nitrobenzene, the most important of which is the meta form: used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- distensibility — Capability of swelling or stretching.
- double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- double density — floppy disk
- double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.