14-letter words containing b, o, n, d, i
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- 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
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disposableness — Disposability.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- double density — floppy disk
- double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
- double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.
- 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.
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- 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
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- 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
- 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
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- 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.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
- food combining — a dietary approach that advocates the eating of specific foods at specific times and restricts which types of foods can be eaten together.
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- 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.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- 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.
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
- 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)
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
- inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.