14-letter words containing b, o, t, a, n, i
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conglobulation — the act of conglobing
- connectability — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
- containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- contributional — the act of contributing.
- corner cabinet — a cabinet, usually triangular in design so as to fit into a corner of a room.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- cotton batting — cotton wadding, as used in quilt making
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- 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.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- 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