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14-letter words containing b, l, u, e, s

  • omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shoot the bull — exaggerations; lies; nonsense.
  • shoulder blade — the scapula.
  • shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • soluble tablet — A soluble tablet is a tablet that is designed to be dissolved in water before it is swallowed.
  • squeeze bottle — a flexible plastic bottle the contents of which can be forced out by squeezing.
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subcontinental — a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent: the subcontinent of India.
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
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