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14-letter words containing b, r, n, y

  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
  • conformability — Conformableness.
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • contact binary — a binary system in which the envelopes of gas surrounding each star are in contact.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
  • convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
  • 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
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cybernetically — using cybernetics
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
  • cylinder block — the metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling channels or fins of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
  • debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
  • 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.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • 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
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • henry bessemerSir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • honeycomb work — stalactite work.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
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