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14-letter words containing b, i, o, s, u

  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • 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
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • 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.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
  • non-absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
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