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14-letter words containing b, i, t, d, e

  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • saint benedictSaint, died a.d. 685, pope 684–85.
  • scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shit disturber — a person who enjoys causing controversy or upsetting people
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • soldier beetle — a yellowish-red cantharid beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, having a somewhat elongated body
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • 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.
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tandem bicycle — a bicycle for two or more persons, having seats and corresponding sets of pedals arranged in tandem, especially popular in the 19th century.
  • tax-deductible — noting an item the value or cost of which is deductible from the gross amount on which a tax is calculated.
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • to sb's credit — If something is to someone's credit, they deserve praise for it.
  • toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • trisubstituted — pertaining to a molecule containing three substituents.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • unidentifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • Ústí nad labem — a port in the Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: textile and chemical industries. Pop: 95 000 (2005 est)
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • venetian blind — a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
  • wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
  • with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
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