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14-letter words containing b, e, u

  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • 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.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • general public — people in general
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harriet tubmanHarriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • 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.
  • hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
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