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14-letter words containing b, i, a, s, e

  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • strike-breaker — A strike-breaker is a person who continues to work during a strike, or someone who takes over the work of a person who is on strike.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • sub-treasuries — a subordinate or branch treasury.
  • subaggregation — a subtotalling
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subsecretariat — an administrative department that assists and is subordinate to a secretariat.
  • substantialize — to make or become substantial or actual
  • substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • subterrestrial — underground; subterranean.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • take liberties — If you take liberties or take a liberty with someone or something, you act in a way that is too free and does not show enough respect.
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • trans-siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • undiminishable — unable to be diminished
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