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

  • cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
  • countably many — countable
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • 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.
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • double density — floppy disk
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • 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.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • 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.
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intolerability — not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • methoxybenzene — anisole.
  • month by month — each month
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • nonobjectivity — Lack of objectivity.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • not bat an eye — to blink; wink; flutter.
  • not sb's style — If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • point-by-point — detailed and deliberate; taking every point into consideration
  • queen's bounty — king's bounty.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
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