14-letter words containing b, l, u, e, i
- double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
- 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.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- 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
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- general public — people in general
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx