14-letter words containing b, i, o, t, r, n
- containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- contributorily — In a contributory manner.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
- corner cabinet — a cabinet, usually triangular in design so as to fit into a corner of a room.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- 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.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- 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
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- 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
- fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
- forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- 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.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
- horizontal bar — on a bar chart
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- incontrollable — uncontrollable.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.