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14-letter words containing b, o, s, t, n

  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
  • contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
  • contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
  • contrabassoons — Plural form of contrabassoon.
  • corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
  • countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
  • custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
  • demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • 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
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • 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
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
  • exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • 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.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • 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.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • 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 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.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • 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.
  • have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
  • 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
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • immobilisation — Alternative spelling of immobilization.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
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