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14-letter words containing b, i, s, n

  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • 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
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
  • embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
  • establishments — Plural form of establishment.
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
  • exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • extensibleness — The quality of being extensible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • 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
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • 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.
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • 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.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
  • hanging basket — suspended woven container for plants
  • hasan al-basri — died 728 ad, Muslim religious thinker
  • hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
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