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14-letter words containing b, e, u

  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • lake bangweulu — a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • 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
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • 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.
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